[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.", "an enlisted person, as distinguished from a commissioned officer:the soldiers' mess and the officers' mess.", "a person of military skill or experience:George Washington was a great soldier.", "a person who contends or serves in any cause:a soldier of the Lord.", "Also called button man button man.Slang.a low-ranking member of a crime organization or syndicate.", "Entomology.a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.a similar member of a caste of worker bees, specialized to protect the hive.", "a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.", "a similar member of a caste of worker bees, specialized to protect the hive.", "a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out.Compare rowlock(def2) rowlock(def2).", "Informal.a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer ; malingerer ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to act or serve as a soldier.", "Informal.to loaf while pretending to work; malinger :He was soldiering on the job."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere :to soldier on until the work is done."]}]