Meaning

3 senses
  1. A soldier trained to use a rifle as a primary weapon.

    The riflemen had not been issued their weapons yet, and hence they trained with wooden mock-up rifles.

    стрелокstrelok

    стріле́цьstrilécʹ

    a male soldier whose weapon is a rifle

  2. A person especially skilled in the use of a rifle.

    She was quite the rifleman and could pick off a squirrels with a .22 from across the field with amazing accuracy.

    a man skilled in the use of a rifle

  3. A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
soldier:
Русский
By meaning 1
soldier:

Forms

plural: riflemen
Singularrifleman
Pluralriflemen

irregular · Lesson

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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