soldier

member of an armed force
Intangible military_profession Q4991371
soldier
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Summary

soldier is a military profession[1]. soldier draws 4,674 Wikipedia views per month (military profession category, ranking #10 of 56).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: position[3], military rank[4]
  • Named after: military pay[5]
  • Subclass of: military personnel[6]
  • Commons category: Soldiers[7]
  • Patron saint: Saint Barbara[8], Saint George[9], Ignatius of Loyola[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Soldiers[11]
  • Commons gallery: Soldier[12]
  • Depicted by: Soldiers playing dice[13]
  • Described by source: Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[18]
  • Different from: Private[19], soldat[20], solderer[21]
  • Female form of label: vojákyně[22], جندية[23], soldatino[24], Soldatin[25], חיילת[26], Zaldotin[27], soldada[28], vojakinja[29], soldate[30], στρατιωτίνα[31], soldatessa[32], солдатка[33], karė[34], nótȧxéve'ho'á'e[35]
  • Name: GI[36]
  • Male form of label: soldatulo[37], Zaldot[38], soldado[39], солдат[40], soldato[41], karys[42]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[43]

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Influence

Things named for soldier include Soldato[44], an occupation[45].

Why It Matters

soldier has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] soldier is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

Entities named for soldier include Soldato[44], an occupation[45].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  28. [30] ↑ . French Wiktionary. wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . cheyennelanguage.org. cheyennelanguage.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . history.com. history.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bbc', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn
    Bncf thesaurus id → 8874, 18900
    Sitelink count → 125
    Wikidata description → member of an armed force
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||azb, lv, sq */ #pwb Copy label"
  2. 13w ago · Kbamert · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → military profession, position, military rank
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: military rank"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002312-vojaci
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  4. 20w ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Library of congress authority id: sh85124554"
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