noun
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soldiers collectively
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a group of soldiers
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the profession of being a soldier
Etymology
Origin of soldiery
Example Sentences
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By L.A.’s yardstick of history, its story goes way back, like Queen-Victoria-and-first-movie-camera far back, to when it was first dedicated to the nation’s suffering soldiery, and then back a century before then.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
Just as I emerged upon the street, I came face to face with a fine looking young man, with soldiery bearing, leading an elderly woman with a young lady following close behind.
From Slate • Oct. 23, 2019
Familiarly, we take in the hate/respect struggle between the civilian scout and the garrison commander; the love relations between the commander's daughter and the young first lieutenant who-has-yet-to-prove-himself; the comic routines of the general soldiery.
From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019
Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery.
From Time • Jan. 18, 2015
All feats on that great field In the long warfare, Dark days the bright gods willed, Wounds you bore there, Argos' old soldiery On Troy beach teeming, Charmed out of time we see.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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