Meaning

2 senses
  1. A soldier employed in an infantry role

    Fußsoldat, Infanterist

    пехоти́нецpexotínec

    піхоти́нецьpixotýnecʹ

  2. A male soldier of the infantry

More definitions
  • a man who fights on foot with small arms

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The infantryman had the rare opportunity to break his head against a tree.

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  2. "Finally, the whir of the shells and the whistling of the bullets are over," wrote French infantryman Alfred Roumiguieres.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
soldier who fights on foot:
Русский
By meaning 1
soldier who fights on foot:
Deutsch
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soldier who fights on foot:

Origin

From infantry + man.

From infantry + man.

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Forms

plural: infantrymen
Singularinfantryman
Pluralinfantrymen

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Synonyms

4 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
infantryman — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto