Soldiery
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Soldiers considered as a group.
"Now they could see the point of having a uniformed driver to conduct them, for he would bear the brunt of such encounters with the soldiery."
- 2 soldiers collectively wordnet
- 3 The profession or skill of being a soldier.
Example
More examples"During the last week the story had run from him with a facility that had surprised and delighted him; words came to him without effort, ranging themselves into line with the promptitude of well-drilled soldiery; sentences and paragraphs marched down the clean-swept spaces of his paper, like companies and platoons defiling upon review; his chapters were brigades that he marshaled at will, falling them in one behind the other, each preceded by its chapter-head, like an officer in the space between two divisions."
Etymology
From soldier + -y.
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