Meaning | A soldier mounted on horseback. |
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Example | "a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount" |
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Synonym | trooper |
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Member of | cavalry | A highly mobile / mobile army unit |
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Narrower | Rough Rider | A member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898) |
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cuirassier | A cavalryman equipped with a cuirass |
dragoon | A member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen |
hussar | A member of a European light cavalry unit |
lancer | (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance |
Broader | soldier | An enlisted ... / enlisted man or woman who serves in an army |
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Spanish | jinete, soldado de caballería |
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Catalan | soldat de cavalleria |
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