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Definition: Infantryman |
InfantrymanNoun1. Fights on foot with small arms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "infantryman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: InfantrymanSynonyms: foot soldier (n), footslogger (n), marcher (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer; (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; spear bearer; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Infantryman |
| English words defined with "infantryman": fusilier ♦ grenade thrower, grenadier. (references) |
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 | A soldier comforts a grief-stricken American infantryman whose buddy had been killed in action. In the background, a corpsman methodically fills out casualty forms in the Haktong-ni area, Korea, Aug. 28, 1950. (P.; photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Al Chang).. |  | [A wounded infantryman is treated at a first aid station].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Infantryman on guard--Culpeper Court House, Va.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | During the thick of the fighting at Buna, an Australian infantryman receives a handful of grenades from a fellow soldier inside the tank. American tanks manned by Australian crews, carried large quantities of grenades which were distributed to the infantr.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Halftrack infantryman with Garand rifle, Ft. Knox, Ky.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Halftrack infantryman with Garand rifle, Ft. Knox, Ky.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Infantryman with halftrack, a young soldier of the armed forces, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Infantryman with halftrack, a young soldier of the armed forces, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Infantryman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Infantryman" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
infantryman | 21 |
combat infantryman badge | 11 |
expert infantryman badge | 4 |
combat infantryman | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "infantryman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | këmbësor (foot passenger, foot slogger, footer, footman, ganger, pedestrian, unmounted, Walker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ماش (hiker), جندي مشاة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пехотинец (foot soldier, footman, footslogger, peon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 步兵 (foot, foot soldier, infantry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pìšák (pawn, pedestrian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jalkaväensotilas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soldat d'infanterie, fantassin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | infanterist (foot soldier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεζόσ (afloot, pedestrian, prosaic, prosaical, prosy, unimaginative), φαντάροσ (soldier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חי'ר יק, ר'לי (footsoldier, pedestrian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lövész (fusilier, ground trooper, infantry rifleman, machine gunner, marksman, marksmen, rifleman, riflemen, rifle-shot, tirailleur), gyalogos (afoot, fantassin, foot passenger, foot soldier, footsoldier, ground trooper, infantry, pedestrian, wayfaring, wobbler), baka (dough-boy, foot slogger, footsoldier, tommy, wobbler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | soldato di fanteria, fante (chap, fellow, foot soldier, Jack, knave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 歩兵 (foot soldier, infantry, pawn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほへい (foot soldier, infantry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sidoor coshey (foot-soldier), kearnagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | infantrymanay infante (footman, infant, infanticide), infantaria (infantry, infarct). (various references) пехотинец (foot soldier, footslogger, peon). (various references) vojnik pešak (dogface, doughboy, peon). (various references) guardián de infantería. (various references) infanterist (foot slogger, footman, rifleman). (various references) ทหารราบ (infantry). (various references) piyade eri (doughboy, doughboyfoot), piyade (foot, infantry, peon). (various references) піхотинець (dogface, foot soldier, footman, footslogger, peon, pongo, yard bird). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pedes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "infantryman" (pronounced i"nfantrēmun) |
| 7 | -n t r ē m u n | countryman. |
| 5 | -r ē m u n | dairymen, Everyman, ferryman. |
| 4 | -ē m u n | clergyman, committeeman, nurserymen, salarymen. |
| 3 | -m u n | abdomen, acumen, adman, admen, airman, albumin, alderman, antihistamine, Ashman, assemblywoman, backgammon, backwoodsman, Badman, bagman, barman, baseman, bayman, bellman, Benjamin, bitumen, Boardman, boatman, bookman, Bowman, bowmen, brakeman, bushman, businesswoman, cameraman, Carman, Carmen, carmine, cattlemen, Cayman, chairman, chairwoman, Chapman, chessman, chrismon, churchman, churchmen, cinnamon, coachman, cochairman, common, congressman, congresswoman, corpsman, councilman, councilwoman, councilwomen, cowman, craftsman, craftsmen, crewman, daemon, Daman, demon, desman, determine, Dolman, draftsman, draftsmen, dromon, dustman, Dutchman, Ermine, examine, famine, fireman, firemen, Firman, footman, foramen, foreman, foremen, forewoman, Freedman, Freeman, freshman, gammon, gentleman, gentlewoman, gentlewomen, german, Goodman, gunman, hangman, headman, headsman, henchman, henchmen, Herdman, Hetman, horseman, horsemen, houseman, human, huntsman, hymen, illumine, inhuman, jasmine, Kirkman, Landman, landsman, lawman, layman, laymen, Leman, lemon, Letterman, Liman, Lineman, linemen, lobsterman, longshoremen, lumen, madmen, marksman, messman, midshipman, newswoman, newswomen, nobleman, noblewoman, nonhuman, oarsman, ombudsman, omen, ottoman, Outman, overman, Packman, Penman, pitchman, Pitman, Plowman, policeman, policewoman, postman, predetermine, pressman, Pullman, ragmen, reexamine, regimen, rifleman, Rodman, roman, rumen, salesman, saleswoman, saleswomen, salmon, seaman, seamen, seedsman, semen, sermon, shaman, Shipman, showman, Spearman, specimen, spokesman, spokeswoman, sportsman, statesman, Stillman, Stockman, subhuman, summon, superhuman, superwoman, talisman, Telamon, thiamin, timberman, Titman, Toman, townsman, tradesmen, trainmen, uncommon, vitamin, watchman, Waterman, watermen, wingman, wireman, woman, women, Woodman, woodsmen, Woolman, workman, yachtsman, yeoman. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-m-n-n-n-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: infantry, trainman. | |
-4 letters: antiman, infanta, martian, tamarin. | |
-5 letters: airman, amrita, antiar, farina, firman, infamy, infant, maftir, mannan, mantra, marina, martin, minyan, ramify, ratany, ratify, tamari, tannin, tinman, yantra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-i-m-n-n-n-r-t-y" | |
+4 letters: noninflammatory. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 66 61 6E 74 72 79 6D 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ..-. .- -. - .-. -.--. -- .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01100001 01101110 01110100 01110010 01111001 01101101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f a n t r y m a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 0061 006E 0074 0072 0079 006D 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380726780868491796780 |
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