militiaman

[ mi-lish-uh-muhn ]

noun

, plural mi·li·tia·men.

1. a person serving in the militia.

Gender Note

See -man.

Word History and Origins

Origin of militiaman¹

First recorded in 1770–80; militia + -man

Example Sentences

As the pair drove off and got a good distance away from the militiamen, they pulled over to the side of the road and laid his body there.

From BBC

Like a swarm of human locusts, RSF militiamen rampaged through the capital, Khartoum, stripping it bare of anything that could be pillaged and resold.

From BBC

They would be militiamen, not soldiers, they were told.

From BBC

When the marauding militiamen arrived at her door on that morning in April 1994, Florence Mukantaganda knew there was nowhere to run.

From New York Times

In November, militiamen caught her, along with her aunt and cousins, as they were fleeing from their hometown of Ardamata to the nearby city of Geneina, she tells us.

From BBC