SOLDIERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soldiery mean? 

• SOLDIERY (noun)
  The noun SOLDIERY has 1 sense:

1. soldiers collectively

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLDIERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soldiers collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

military personnel; soldiery; troops

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

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

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

friendly (troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces)

hostile (troops belonging to the enemy's military forces)

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

garrison (the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place)

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

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

Derivation:

soldier (serve as a soldier in the military)

 Context examples 

And, certes, had the two visages alone been seen, and the stranger been asked which were the more likely to belong to the bold warrior whose name was loved by the roughest soldiery of Europe, he had assuredly selected the lady's.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)