infantryman
Americannoun
noun
Gender
See -man.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of infantryman
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When I was an infantryman in the U.S.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2025
I’m struck by the parallel between the life of a closeted trans Civil War infantryman and the modern American trans teen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024
He fled agricultural service in Kilmarnock as a teenager to get to Glasgow to enlist as an infantryman before ending up "right in the forefront" of the battle for Monte Cassino.
From BBC ● May 31, 2024
The infantryman, who asked to be identified only by his call sign, Smiley, returned to duty willingly.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
When he was separated from his unit and, what was worse for an infantryman, from his rifle.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
In addition, Russian commanders had gotten used to sending instructions to infantrymen about where to move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
Nothing the American infantrymen encountered battling across Europe and into the German heartland steeled them for what they found at Dachau.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
It's rare for journalists these days to speak to infantrymen, as it's become too risky to go to these trenches.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
But that advantage flips in the afternoon, when Ukrainian drone pilots can sometimes spot the moving shadows of Russian infantrymen.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
“Chuckie” was a derisive term coined by infantrymen, using the army’s spelling alphabet where a word is assigned to each letter of the alphabet.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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