Collocations for "soldier"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "soldier" in context.
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soldier
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- they soldiered on
- soldier on in spite of the [difficulties, hardships, defeat]
- soldier on through the [recession, match, night]
- soldier on [relentlessly, willingly, determinedly]
- soldier in [the army, Iraq, the battle]
- UK: soldier on the job
- send in the soldiers
- the soldiers were [stationed, deployed] in
- withdraw the soldiers from
- soldiers in [Vietnam]
- missing soldiers
- soldiers killed in [Iraq]
- the soldier was killed in action
- the soldier was awarded the [Medal of Honor, Purple Heart]
- the soldier was promoted (for)
- the soldier's [life, emotions]
- train new soldiers
- [army, UN] soldiers
- soldiers from [France]
- is just a [common, lowly, foot, reserve] soldier
- playing with his toy soldiers
- the soldier's experience
- [document, capture] the experience of a soldier
- his [dad, sister] is a soldier
- has been a good little soldier
- UK, informal: cut the toast into soldiers
- UK, informal: dipped bread soldiers into the fried egg
'soldier' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
German
- able
- advance
- ant
- attribute
- bold
- brave
- bravery
- clad
- cloak
- common
- corpse
- daring
- disabled
- discharge
- dust
- ease
- fearless
- foot
- grieve
- guard
- halt
- heavily
- kit
- loyal
- metal
- misery
- mission
- playwright
- prowess
- quarter
- rank
- raw
- replacement
- resilience
- revolution
- righteous
- round
- rugged
- saber
- salute
- shot
- slain
- spit
- sunset
- superior
- swagger
- tailor
- thirst
- tomb