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MARCHER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fights on foot with small arms

Synonyms:

foot soldier; footslogger; infantryman; marcher

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("marcher" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

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

fusilier ((formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket)

grenade thrower; grenadier (an infantryman equipped with grenades)

doughboy (an American infantryman in World War I)

musketeer (a foot soldier armed with a musket)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walks with regular or stately step

Synonyms:

marcher; parader

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("marcher" is a kind of...):

footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)

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

pivot; pivot man (the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver)

wheeler (the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling)

Derivation:

march (walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An inhabitant of a border district

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("marcher" is a kind of...):

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

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