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sepoy

[ see-poi ]

noun

  1. (formerly, in India) a soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, especially of the British.


sepoy

/ ˈsiːpɔɪ /

noun

  1. (formerly) an Indian soldier in the service of the British
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sepoy1

First recorded in 1675–85, in sense “horseman”; 1710–20 for current sense; variant of sipahi from Urdu, from Persian sipāhī “horseman, soldier,” derivative of sipāh “army”; spahi
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sepoy1

C18: from Portuguese sipaio, from Urdu sipāhī, from Persian: horseman, from sipāh army
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Example Sentences

Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.

Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.

It was with the utmost difficulty that his wiser subordinates got him to disarm the sepoy regiments in Agra itself.

It should be explained that a sepoy (properly “sipahi”) is an infantry soldier, and a sowar a mounted one.

The Sikh ranks had been mainly recruited from our disbanded Sepoy soldiery and deserters.

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