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CONFEDERATE SOLDIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
Classified under:
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)
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