paratrooper
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈpærəˌtruːpər/
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paracaidista
- So I volunteered to become a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division.
- French paratroopers
- three paratroopers
The light, the sky was lit up by rockets and I visited my old paratrooper unit.
- The light, the sky was lit up by rockets and I visited my old paratrooper unit.
- So I'm kind of this scrawny, scrawny getting in my hometown going, yeah, I'm going to be a paratrooper.
- Then from there they send me him to Peru was a paratrooper unit.
- I had a wife of a paratrooper.
- In my head in the Army and on the same trip, I'd seen a big paratrooper coming into the office and he was, he was, he was finished.
Examples
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The Junkers will drop paratroopers in your rear to cut you off.
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Now, La Berge was a quiet man, a former paratrooper in the Foreign Legion, quiet but tough, you know.
Fiction book (1995) -
The light, the sky was lit up by rockets and I visited my old paratrooper unit.
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I was a paratrooper in Her Majesty's service, 15 years.
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Same thing for those paratroopers down there.
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Excuse the interruption, Field Marshal but... British paratroopers have landed... three kilometres from here.
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US Army paratroopers, National Guardsmen, state and local police are continuing the fight against a handful of snipers.
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As fellow troopers aid wounded buddies, a paratrooper of A Company, 101st Airborne, guides a medical evacuation.
Blog text (27) -
Narrator 2: The President sends 1,000 paratroopers from the Army's 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock.
Fiction book (2000) -
As a trained paratrooper, he jumped into hostile territory during the mission.
Synonyms
2
5.3
Soldiers trained to jump from planes with parachutes to fight
1
8.3
A soldier trained to jump from a plane with a parachute
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Paratrooper comes from parachute ('a large cloth that makes you fall slowly') and trooper ('soldier'), so a paratrooper is a soldier who jumps from planes with a parachute.