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Definition of Common soldier
1. Noun. An enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines. "Our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Soldier
Literary usage of Common soldier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"THE ARMY: BY A (LATE) common soldier.1 FOR some years the state of the Army has
caused considerable uneasiness to the authorities. ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Every day labourer, common soldier, common sailor, or common seaman, \i.
Every person under the degree of a gentleman, 2t. And every person of or above the ..."
3. Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger by Alan Seeger (1917)
"The r61e of the common soldier. Discomforts and misery of life in the trenches.
The commissariat. The continual struggle of the artillery. ..."
4. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"donative to the Roman army, giving every common soldier fifty drachms, each
centurion one thousand, and each military tribune ten thousand, ..."
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