cavalryman

[kav-uhl-ree-muhn, -man]

noun

plural

cavalrymen 

1. a soldier in the cavalry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cavalryman¹

First recorded in 1855–60; cavalry + man

Example Sentences

“The heat was suffocating,” a French cavalryman remembered.

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Outside the barn, Conger, Baker, Doherty, and the cavalrymen tensed for action.

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Kornilov, a Siberian Cossack, appeared in public surrounded by a bodyguard of tribal Turkmen cavalrymen, and posters with his image adorned Moscow streets in 1917.

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It took museum officials a couple of weeks to notice that the thumb was missing from a warrior known as the cavalryman.

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Confederate cavalryman Joseph Wheeler is honored by the state of Alabama with a statue in National Statuary Hall.

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