musketeer

[muhs-ki-teer]

noun

1. a soldier armed with a musket.

musketeer

/ ˌmʌskɪˈtɪə /

noun

1. (formerly) a soldier armed with a musket

Word History and Origins

Origin of musketeer¹

1580–90; musket + -eer; compare French mousquetaire, equivalent to mousquet musket + -aire -ary

Example Sentences

The three musketeers, meanwhile, continue their fascinating and painfully realistic friendship dance.

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The saying "three is a crowd" seems not only to apply to "The Three Investigators" and the three musketeers.

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Swordsman D’Artagnan arrives in Paris chasing his dreams to become a king’s musketeer, where he commits many a faux pas and gets robbed, among other indignities.

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A lone musketeer of disruption, he spouts mantras about the glory of “breaking stuff,” and cloaks his bottomless greed and shallow narcissism in showy messianic robes.

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“In movies, on TV, musketeers are always white.”

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