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MUSKETEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musketeer mean? 

MUSKETEER (noun)
  The noun MUSKETEER has 1 sense:

1. a foot soldier armed with a musketplay

  Familiarity information: MUSKETEER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MUSKETEER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A foot soldier armed with a musket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("musketeer" is a kind of...):

foot soldier; footslogger; infantryman; marcher (fights on foot with small arms)

Holonyms ("musketeer" is a member of...):

musketry (musketeers and their muskets collectively)

Derivation:

musket (a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen)


 Context examples 


Nothing followed for a time, but the remark had set us all on the alert, straining ears and eyes—the musketeers with their pieces balanced in their hands, the captain out in the middle of the block house with his mouth very tight and a frown on his face.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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