Library / English Dictionary

MILITARY RECRUIT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A recently enlisted soldier

Synonyms:

military recruit; recruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("military recruit" is a kind of...):

enlisted man (a male enlisted person in the armed forces)

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

Black and Tan (an English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921)

raw recruit (an inexperienced and untrained recruit)

sprog (a new military recruit)

yard bird; yardbird (a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks)

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