Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
soldier , 6 . - noun The bulldog ant of Australia.
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Examples
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POLICEMAN: A member of a police force : a soldier-ant.
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POLICEMAN: A member of a police force : a soldier-ant.
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Most interesting of all the ant family is the carnivorous soldier-ant.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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The soldier-ant well deserves his name, for he is the most courageous and the most disciplined of all living creatures.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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Woe betide the wounded animal or the sick man, should the soldier-ant discover him!
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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It is almost the exact counterpart of an African soldier-ant magnified many hundred thousand times.
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It is almost the exact counterpart of an African soldier-ant magnified many hundred thousand times.
A journey in other worlds A romance of the future John Jacob Astor 1888
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It was only when one spoke to the individual, some friend who bared his soul a second, or some soldier-ant in the multitude, with whom one talked with truth, that one saw the hatred of a man for his job, the sense of doom upon him, the weakness that was in his strength, the bitterness of his grudge against a fate that forced him to go on in this way of life, the remembrance of a life more beautiful which he had abandoned -- all mingled with those other qualities of pride and comradeship, and that illogical sense of humor which made up the strange complexity of his psychology.
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919
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