SERVICEMAN Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

serviceman

noun

ˈsər-vəs-ˌman

Definition of serviceman

as in soldier

a person engaged in military service wishing our servicemen overseas the best of luck

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civilian

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Recent Examples of serviceman Tillman was born in Germany to a German mother and an American serviceman father who left the family shortly after. — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026 Sherman's lawyer previously said his client was also a retired military serviceman and successful businessman. — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 20 June 2026 Rivers’ goal is to regenerate the psychic nerves of these shattered servicemen. — The Know, Denver Post, 7 June 2026 Especially women, with all those drunken servicemen rolling through, packs of them, fights spilling out of the cafés, catcalls and spitting in the streets. — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for serviceman

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Noun

This is my personal version of those videos of soldiers coming home from war, and the other women react as such.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
An older man was carefully helped off one helicopter, while a soldier carried an older woman on his back to a medical tent.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of soldier

Noun

The army Mladic created to fight in Bosnia was a model of ruthlessness, daring and brutality in the Serb warrior tradition, once prized in the life-or-death partisan struggle against the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in World War Two.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
As a warrior for kindness and a defender of hope, may Parton’s legacy never leave us.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of warrior

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