MUSKETEER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A foot soldier armed with a musket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

foot soldier; footslogger; infantryman; marcher (fights on foot with small arms)

Holonyms ("musketeer" is a member of...):

musketry (musketeers and their muskets collectively)

Derivation:

musket (a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen)

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