CONFEDERATE SOLDIER

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• CONFEDERATE SOLDIER (noun)
  The noun CONFEDERATE SOLDIER has 1 sense:

1. a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War

  Familiarity information: CONFEDERATE SOLDIER used as a noun is very rare.

• CONFEDERATE SOLDIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Confederate soldier" is a kind of...):

Confederate (a supporter of the Confederate States of America)

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Confederate soldier"):

bushwhacker (a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War)

greyback; Johnny; Johnny Reb; Reb; Rebel ('Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; 'greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms)