Sepoy

/ˈsiːˌpɔɪ/

Synonyms for "sepoy" (13 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(1 words)
archaic term

Strong matches (4)

Noun(3 words)
historical termindian soldierinfantryman

Related words (6)

Noun(2 words)
old termsoldier

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

4 entries
combatantlexical itemmilitary personnelmilitary term

More specific

2 entries

Collocations

6 entries
Indian sepoynative sepoysepoy mutinysepoy ranksepoy regimentsepoy troops

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

We are far from being so inspired with a Russophobia as to regard the time as at hand when the Russian Cossack and the English Sepoy shall knock their noses together while acting as sentinels upon their respective frontiers.

Source: tatoeba (11796191)

If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore.

Source: wiktionary

They proved to be the wives of a body of sepoys, also from the 5th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry; the sepoys had perished, and their families been enslaved, when their pattamar had been captured by the Qawasim some months before.

Source: wiktionary

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