soldiery
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8.5
- noun
- /ˈsoʊldʒəri/
- Restif shows that the great majority of parishes in the diocese of Rennes were affected in the 1590s, for almost all those with surviving accounts show damage by soldiery and objects and textiles stolen, damaged, or destroyed.
Examples
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"I had forgotten that he had his own reasons for keeping away from English soldiery.
Fiction book (1991) -
There is little doubt that the popular notion of virtuous citizen-soldiers defending home and hearth was a romanticized idealization of Civil War soldiery, but there is also little doubt that it was a culturally significant construction within the South.
Academic text (2018) -
Call it a test of soldiery, then.
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Then all the soldiery jumped out of the boats.
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Our country's entire professional soldiery.
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Remember a uniformed soldiery was developed to protect civilians.
Blog text (31) -
Washington has since changed that view, partly because he has somewhat reformed his soldiery.
Blog text (24) -
The first form of constitution that succeeded monarchy in ancient Greece was one in which the soldiery formed the citizen body.
Academic text (1995) -
Resolved, that the sympathy of the Democratic Party is heartily and earnestly extended to the soldiery of our army and sailors of our navy, who are and have been in the field and on the sea under the flag of our country, and, in the events of its attaining power, they will receive all the care, protection, and regard that the brave soldiers and sailors of the republic have so nobly earned.
Blog text (30) -
The general commanded all the soldiery to assemble for the morning briefing.
Synonyms
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2.3
An organized group of people like soldiers or police
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2.0
Soldiers who work together as a group in an army
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1.0
A large group of people organized to do one job
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7.2
A large military group made of two or more divisions and support
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3.2
A group of soldiers organized to protect or fight for a country
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3.2
A group of soldiers organized to fight or carry out military tasks
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4.8
A group like a company or team that works together
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3.4
People who serve in the armed forces, like soldiers and sailors
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7.0
A group of people from a larger organization, like soldiers or representatives
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2.8
A group of soldiers that does a specific task
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2.5
A group of soldiers organized as part of an army, like a platoon or company
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3.1
A unit of soldiers organized to do a specific job for the armed forces
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Soldiery comes from soldier, which comes from the Latin solidus meaning 'a coin', and the ending -ery makes it a group. So a soldier was originally someone 'paid' to fight, and soldiery is the group of those soldiers, the military forces.