Advertisement

Advertisement

returned soldier

noun

  1. a soldier who has served abroad AlsoAustralreturned man
“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


Discover More

Example Sentences

Although he lives a drab suburban life, one built on and paid for by violence, Kill List’s returned soldier protagonist has become an essentially murderous man.

After the war she married a returned soldier who had stepped on a landmine and lost part of his foot but turned up at a dance anyway on two crutches.

Its purpose, seemingly, was to let the audience peer through the nightmarish glasses of a returned soldier suffering from the nightmares and flashbacks of post-traumatic stress syndrome.

We speak of the returned soldier, whose life turned at the same age mine did, and I fear for him a future defined by something bad and not of his doing.

From Slate

Mr. and Mrs. Keith returned to their home by a train that left only a few minutes later, and Ethel, after a short but very joyful interview with her returned soldier cousins, went back to her work at the store.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


returned manreturnee