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COLOR BEARER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does color bearer mean?
• COLOR BEARER (noun)
The noun COLOR BEARER has 1 sense:
1. the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle
Familiarity information: COLOR BEARER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
color bearer; standard-bearer
Hypernyms ("color bearer" is a kind of...):
soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
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