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What is the noun for infantryman?

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infantry
  1. Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
  2. (uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops
  3. A regiment of infantry
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  5. Examples:
    1. “His deep and abiding interest in infantry warfare was soon to pay great dividends.”
      “When an infantry officer takes command of a company, he wants to make it the best fighting force possible.”
      “In total, 2 tank brigades and an infantry division were destroyed by the attack planes.”
infanteer
  1. (Britain) A soldier employed in any infantry role; an infantryman.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Aside from being a qualified infanteer he had also qualified as a driver, signaller, mortar man and machine gunner.”
      “On the ground, an infanteer, a sapper or a trooper must always be the first in the order of march during any advance on a path or a road, or to check a building for booby-traps.”
      “For 10 of those years, I've been an infanteer.”
infantryman
  1. (military) a soldier employed in an infantry role
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  3. Examples:
    1. “So Paolo landed up in Luanda and went through the motions of being an infantryman.”
      “Of all the conversations I had over those weeks, the one I recall the most was with an infantryman, a private first class.”
      “How easy would it be for an infantryman to lose that focus and revert to his mindset of closing with and destroying the enemy?”
infantrywoman
  1. (military) A female member of an infantry
infantrywomen
  1. plural of infantrywoman
infantrymen
  1. plural of infantryman
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the huge battles of 1914-15 Russian infantrymen had to attack unprotected by artillery barrages and often lacking even rifles.”
      “Quickly following Miller in the charge came the infantrymen and Winters's dismounted cavalry moving as skirmishers.”
      “When the weather socked in again, the infantrymen and artillerymen were ready for the German main attack that took place on Christmas Eve.”
infanteers
infantries
  1. plural of infantry
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A good part of their infantries were pulled out, but more of their armour and artillery came in.”
      “This action is very useful to locate the snipers, or to flush out the infantries camouflaged in order to occupy itself some with marines.”
      “Here, visitors' will know the simple lives of infantries who lived in humble houses with a yard.”
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