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Meanings of common soldier in English

Catalan
soldat ras
Spanish
soldado raso

An enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines.

soldat ras
Usage of common soldier in English
1
She again smiled: It was a complaisant facade of any common soldier.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
2
I shall not become a common soldier if I can help it.
Taken by the Enemy
3
But it is good to be even a common soldier with Him.
For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka
4
He soon proved to his friends that he was no common soldier.
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
5
A common soldier too, generally eats more than he can pay for.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 / 1776-1780
6
Do you suppose a high-born young lady would marry a common soldier?
Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
7
He never knew the correct price of anything, including the common soldier's loyalty.
Julian
8
No doubt he'd had many worse days as a common soldier.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
9
Unnamed in his letter, he was thinking of the common soldier.
A. lincoln: a biography
10
Not that the officer was any worse than the common soldier.
Combed Out
11
Countess Lena, he fights in your ranks as a common soldier.
Vittoria — Volume 7
12
It may be that you will be hetman, and I a common soldier.
For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka
13
War was no good, at least not for the common soldier.
Combed Out
14
Who knows but that you might make of me a common soldier again.
The Original Fables of La Fontaine / Rendered into English Prose...
15
You are only a common soldier, you can only obey orders.
Waiting for the Barbarians
16
Jourdan had begun life as a common soldier fifteen years before.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
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Translations for common soldier
Catalan
soldat ras
Common soldier through the time
Common soldier across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common