DOUGHBOYS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

doughboys

noun

plural of doughboy

as in infantrymen

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Noun

In a victory march across the makeshift bridge, the soldiers transported 140 Carthaginian elephants from Sicily to Rome’s Circus Maximus, according to the first-century historian Pliny the Elder.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
All the gold is gone, and there’s barely enough to pay her soldiers, let alone throw a lavish coronation.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of soldiers

Noun

Barton’s pseudo-scholarship furnished Christian nationalists with valuable ammunition, but the movement needed foot soldiers.

— Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
The result is child foot soldiers hired as hitmen, becoming both the perpetrators of crime and the victims of criminals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 June 2026

Definition of foot soldiers

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