Meaning

2 senses
  1. Soldiers considered as a group.

    Soldaten, Soldatinnen

    во́їнствоvójinstvo

    soldiers collectively

  2. The profession or skill of being a soldier.

    Heeresdienst, Kriegsdienst, Präsensdienst

Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
soldiers considered as a group:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
soldiers considered as a group:
the profession or skill of being a soldier:

Origin

From soldier + -y.

From soldier + -y.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: soldieries
Singularsoldiery
Pluralsoldieries

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
soldiers considered as a group:military personneltroops
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedsoldier

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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