CAVALRYMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cavalryman mean? 

• CAVALRYMAN (noun)
  The noun CAVALRYMAN has 2 senses:

1. a soldier in a motorized army unit

2. a soldier mounted on horseback

  Familiarity information: CAVALRYMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAVALRYMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soldier in a motorized army unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cavalryman; trooper

Hypernyms ("cavalryman" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Holonyms ("cavalryman" is a member of...):

cavalry; horse; horse cavalry (troops trained to fight on horseback)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A soldier mounted on horseback

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cavalryman; trooper

Context example:

a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount

Hypernyms ("cavalryman" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cavalryman"):

cuirassier (a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass)

dragoon (a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen)

hussar (a member of a European light cavalry unit; renowned for elegant dress)

lancer ((formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance)

Rough Rider (a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898))

Holonyms ("cavalryman" is a member of...):

cavalry (a highly mobile army unit)