SOLDIERS

"SOLDIERS" is a plural of: soldier.

Date "SOLDIERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: SOLDIERS

Attention

Bring under one's notice; point out, point to, point at, point the finger at; lay the finger on, indigitate, indicate; direct attention to, call attention to; show; put a mark; (sign) upon; call soldiers to " attention "; bring forward; (make manifest).

Crosswords: SOLDIERS

If they do, there aren't enough Jedi to protect the Republic we're keepers of the peace, not soldiers. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

And our soldiers won't need any pants (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)

The soldiers will stay here for your protection, under the guidance of the Senate (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni)

He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't (The Godfather: Part II; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola)

I ordered 600 soldiers one foot high (Babes in Toyland; writing credit: Frank Butler; Nick Grinde)

Gonna get down to it soldiers are cutting us down ("Ohio"; performing artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

Where my rag wearing soldiers at (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Ten of your tin soldiers in a row (Nikita; performing artist: Elton John)

Soldiers keep on warrin' (Higher Ground; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Sister Susie sewing shirts for soldiers. (references; author: unknown)

The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders. (references; author: unknown)

Four Crazy Soldiers (1971)

The Virgin Soldiers (1969)

Little Soldiers (1968)

The One Eyed Soldiers (1966)

A Hurrah for Soldiers (1963)

Toy Soldiers (performing artist: Martika)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Hazardous Duty: One of America's Most Decorated Soldiers Reports from the Front With the Truth About the U.S. Military Today (reference)

• New York soldiers in the Civil War : a roster of military officers and soldiers who served in New York Regiments in the Civil War as listed in the annual reports of the Adjutant General of the State of New York (reference)

• [New York]: Index of Awards On Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812. With an Added Introduction by Brigadier General Francis J. Higgins, Adjutant General (reference)

• Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Soldiers of the War of 1812 (reference)

• Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Chrome Soldiers (reference)

• DJ Screw & The Screwed Up Click: Soldiers United for Cash - The Documentary (reference)

• We Were Soldiers (reference)

• Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers (reference)

• March of the Wooden Soldiers (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Soldiers Under Command (reference)

• Game Show Soldiers (reference)

• Onward Quirky Soldiers (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Soldiers of Anarchy (reference)

• Small Soldiers (reference)

• Small Soldiers Squad Commander (reference)

• Stats Street Small Soldiers (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Sign over the cell that housed Dr. Samuel Mudd, controversial doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Mudd was convicted of helping Booth and served three years of his sentence at Fort Jefferson. He helped treat many Union soldiers during a yellow fever epidemic and was subsequently paroled. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Soldiers from Headquarters Alpha Company, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.

Soldiers prepare to lower the flag.

Vietnam Memorial (three soldiers. Credit: USDA.

Damage to a nest of Formosan subterranean termites brings hoards of workers and soldiers with dark, oval shaped heads scrambling to repair the hole. Termites shown about 4 times actual size. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Soldiers and play in the Pioneer festival scene at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff.

NHOTIC 10th Anniversary, wagon train reenactment. Pioneers, covered wagons, and soldiers on horseback on the Oregon Trail. Credit: John Craig.

Photograph by M. James Slack, April 1934. (Reproduction Number: HABS NM,31-ACOM,1-32) Visited for the first time by Europeans in 1540, Acoma Pueblo is one of the oldest inhabited villages in the U.S. Located on top of a 357-foot rock mesa, the pueblo was the setting for many confrontations between European colonizers and the Acoma people, including a horrible massacre in 1599 by the Spanish soldiers who controlled the area. These flat-roofed houses made of adobe brick--a Spanish technique--show the Spanish influence on local building traditions. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. American National Red Cross : ARC canteen workers distribute tobacco to wounded soldiers. (note Balkan Frames). Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Polish Typhus Relief Commission : Company of Polish women soldiers. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

As soon as peace is restored, we will banish from the kingdom all foreign born knights, crossbowmen, serjeants, and mercenary soldiers who have come with horses and arms to the kingdom's hurt. (reference)

They that found absolute monarchy upon the title of the sword, make their heroes, who are the founders of such monarchies, arrant Draw-can-sirs, and forget they had any officers and soldiers that fought on their side in the battles they won, or assisted them in the subduing, or shared in possessing, the countries they mastered. (Second Treatise of Government)

Masses of labourers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers. (reference)

The Allied and Associated Governments and the German Government will cause to be respected and maintained the graves of the soldiers and sailors buried in their respective territories. (reference)

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The three soldiers wandered about for a minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly marched off after the others

The soldiers seized her by the arms

A quartet of them, soldiers of the ninetyseventh infantry regiment, sat at the foot of the cross and tossed up dice for the overcoat of the crucified

Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled That in submission will return to us.

And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.

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Health

All it takes to get infected is to be bitten by one infected sand fly. This is more likely to happen the more people are bitten, that is, the more time they spend outside in rural areas from dusk to dawn. Adventure travelers, Peace Corps volunteers, missionaries, ornithologists (people who study birds), other people who do research outdoors at night, and soldiers are examples of people who may have an increased risk for leishmaniasis (especially cutaneous leishmaniasis). (references)

Business

They surrendered to fellow soldiers after a 14-hour standoff. (references)

The law does not require civil trial of soldiers involved in civil crimes, and the military continues to handle such cases. (references)

Originally designed to produce food for Army soldiers, these farms have become increasingly efficient and profitable business enterprises. (references)

Children

Liberia

The armed forces continued to recruit forcibly underage soldiers. (references)

Eritrea

When soldiers were found to be under the age of 18, they were removed from service. (references)

Uganda

The UPDF at times detained LRA child soldiers at Gulu military barracks for a few weeks or months. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burundi

Soldiers did not restrict the movement of residents of IDP camps. (references)

Burma

Soldiers led by officers repeatedly disrupted Christian worship services and celebrations. (references)

Chad

When the prosecutor decided to close the case for lack of sufficient evidence, the soldiers threatened Didama. (references)

Economic History

Lesotho

In January 1997, armed soldiers put down a violent police mutiny and arrested the mutineers. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Many gendarmes and soldiers joined the fight against the junta government forcing Guei to flee. (references)

Tajikistan

Most of these Russian-led forces, however, are local Tajik noncommissioned officers and soldiers. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

Three soldiers and three civilians were shot. (references)

Colombia

The use of child soldiers by guerrillas was common. (references)

Afghanistan

Soldiers reportedly beat staff members who resisted. (references)

Indigenous People

Philippines

Members of the Aeta tribe asserted that government soldiers had converted their school in to a military camp, among other abuses. (references)

Brazil

The Minister of Defense denied the allegations, stating that any sexual relations that took place were consensual in nature, and usually involved soldiers of indigenous origin. (references)

Brazil

Human rights groups and the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies criticized the alleged sexual abuse of members of indigenous groups by soldiers in army units stationed in the state of Roraima. (references)

Minorities

Ghana

A 1999 case in which off-duty soldiers clashed with civilians in the Oshiye area of Accra in a chieftancy dispute, resulting in several injuries, was pending before the courts at year's end. (references)

Yemen

Also in Marib in July, 11 soldiers and 2 tribesmen were killed when security forces were deployed in the region to arrest 2 Jahm tribesmen suspected of bombing the country's main oil pipeline. (references)

Macedonia

On April 30 and May 1, following the funeral of four soldiers, and four policemen from Bitola who were killed in action, ethnic-Macedonian civilians burned ethnic-Albanian businesses in Bitola. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

There are credible reports that child soldiers continued to serve in the SPLA. (references)

Congo

Child labor continued to be a problem; however, there were no reports of child soldiers. (references)

Indonesia

TNI personnel often responded with indiscriminate violence after physical attacks on soldiers. (references)

Political Rights

Fiji

Seventeen persons were charged with treason or other crimes, but such charges later were dropped against 8 soldiers and 4 other persons. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

However, during the afternoon of October 23, 2000, soldiers and gendarmes entered the National Elections Commission (CNE) to stop the count. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croat soldiers and police officers reported that HDZ supporters demanded that they sign papers declaring loyalty to them and participate in an HDZ-ordered walk-out. (references)

Women

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Women have been discriminated against in the workplace in favor of demobilized soldiers. (references)

Fiji

Also, in January the Ministry of Women began a Gender Awareness Program to educate soldiers and police officers about women's issues. (references)

Worker Rights

Burundi

Rebel groups also recruit children as soldiers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "SOLDIERS": band of soldiers ♦ detail of soldiers ♦ group of soldiers ♦ play at soldiers ♦ play soldiers ♦ put spirit into one's soldiers ♦ Soldiers Grove. Additional references.

Beginning with "SOLDIERS": soldiers-come-home, soldiers-of-fortune.

Ending with "SOLDIERS": citizen-soldiers, ex-soldiers, foot-soldiers.

Albanian

një grup njerëzish (group of soldiers). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عساكر, ‏جنود. (various references)

Chinese 

兵員 (troops), 兵 (a force, an army, arms, military, warlike, weapons). (various references)

Finnish

sotaväki (army, military forces, troops). (various references)

French

soldatesque (soldiery), militaires (soldiery). (various references)

German

Soldaten (servicemen). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקצה (detail of soldiers, heat in sport). (various references)

Hungarian

katonásdit játszik (play soldiers, to play at soldiers), garázdálkodó katonák (soldiers on the loot), fosztogató katonák (soldiers on the loot). (various references)

Italian

giocare alla guerra (play at soldiers). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

軍旅 (army, war), 軍士 , 士卒 (officers and soldiers). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しそつ (officers and soldiers), ぐんりょ (army, war), ぐんし (campaign funds, military expenses, schemer, strategist, tactician, truce bearer, war fund, war materiel). (various references)

Manx

taishbynys (apocalypse, apparition, demonstration, display, exhibit, exposition, show, show down, showmanship, turn out, turn out of soldiers, waxworks). (various references)

Pig Latin

oldierssay.(various references)

Romanian

da curaj soldaţilor (put spirit into one's soldiers). (various references)

decanos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "SOLDIERS": soldiership, soldierships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SOLDIERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sholdier, sholdiers, sodier, soldeier, soldoier, solgier, solidiers, soljer, solmier, soudier, souldier. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dorsels, dossier, lorises, rissole, rodless, sidlers, sliders, solders, soldier, solider.

-2 letters: dories, dorsel, dosers, dossel, dosser, dossil, idlers, lessor, lories, losers, oilers, oldies, oriels, osiers, reoils, resids, resods, resold, roiled, seisor, sidler, sidles, siloed, slider, slides, sloids, soiled, solder, solids, sorels.

-3 letters: deils, delis, diols, dirls, doers, doles, doser, doses, dress, dries, dross.