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MUSKETEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does musketeer mean?
• MUSKETEER (noun)
The noun MUSKETEER has 1 sense:
1. a foot soldier armed with a musket
Familiarity information: MUSKETEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A foot soldier armed with a musket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("musketeer" is a kind of...):
foot soldier; footslogger; infantryman; marcher (fights on foot with small arms)
Holonyms ("musketeer" is a member of...):
musketry (musketeers and their muskets collectively)
Derivation:
musket (a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen)
Context examples
Nothing followed for a time, but the remark had set us all on the alert, straining ears and eyes—the musketeers with their pieces balanced in their hands, the captain out in the middle of the block house with his mouth very tight and a frown on his face.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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