Library / English Dictionary

ENLISTED MAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male enlisted person in the armed forces

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("enlisted man" is a kind of...):

enlisted person (a serviceman who ranks below a commissioned officer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enlisted man"):

armorer; armourer; artificer (an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.)

charge of quarters (an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours)

buck private; common soldier; private (an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines)

military recruit; recruit (a recently enlisted soldier)

Holonyms ("enlisted man" is a member of...):

rank; rank and file (the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army))

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