Nearby Words
| Main Entry: |
GI
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | government issue; soldier |
| Synonyms: | GI Joe, army personnel, doughboy, enlisted person, serviceperson |
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| Main Entry: | private |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lowest rank of person enlisted in armed service |
| Synonyms: | GI, enlisted person, first-class*, infantry, private soldier, sailor, second-class, soldier |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recruit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person beginning service |
| Synonyms: | GI, apprentice, beginner, convert, draftee, enlisted person, fledgling, greenhorn, helper, initiate, learner, neophyte, new person, newcomer, novice, novitiate, plebe, proselyte, rookie, sailor, selectee, serviceperson, soldier, tenderfoot, trainee, volunteer |
| Main Entry: | soldier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person serving in military |
| Synonyms: | GI, Green Beret, airforce member, cadet, cavalryperson, commando, conscript, draftee, enlisted person, fighter, guard, guerrilla, gunner, infantry, infantryperson, marine, mercenary, military person, musketeer, officer, paratrooper, pilot, private, rank, recruit, scout, selectee, serviceperson, soldier, soldier-at-arms, trooper, veteran, volunteer, warmonger, warrior |
| Main Entry: | veteran |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person with much experience; particularly in war |
| Synonyms: | GI, expert, old guard, old hand, old pro, old salt, old soldier, old-timer, pro, shellback, sourdough, trouper, vet, warhorse |
| Antonyms: | rookie |
| Main Entry: | warrior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who fights in combat |
| Synonyms: | GI, battler, champion, combatant, conscript, enlisted person, fighter, fighting person, hero, serviceperson, soldier, trooper |
| Main Entry: | Montezuma's revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traveler's diarrhea |
| Synonyms: | Aztec two-step, GI's, dysentery, flux, loose stools, runs, tourista, trots, turistas |
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| Concept: | Veteran. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard., preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers (paternity).
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| Antonyms: | infant |
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