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INFANTRYMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infantryman mean? 

INFANTRYMAN (noun)
  The noun INFANTRYMAN has 1 sense:

1. fights on foot with small armsplay

  Familiarity information: INFANTRYMAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INFANTRYMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fights on foot with small arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

foot soldier; footslogger; infantryman; marcher

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

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

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

fusilier ((formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket)

grenade thrower; grenadier (an infantryman equipped with grenades)

doughboy (an American infantryman in World War I)

musketeer (a foot soldier armed with a musket)


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