Synonyms for infantry
ˈɪn fən triin·fant·ry

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1. infantry, footnoun

   an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

   "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"

   Synonyms:
   fundament, understructure, base, human foot, ft, foundation, metrical unit, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, foot, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

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1. • Army Unit
   • Military

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. infantrynoun

   Synonyms:
   foot-soldiers

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1. List of paraphrases for "infantry":

   infantrymen, foot

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1. Richard Casper:

   It was so hard to comprehend what happened because we go to work the next day like nothing happened, when you're in the infantry, they have to strip away all your vulnerabilities. They have to, because( otherwise) you're not going to survive in war.

2. Mike Burns:

   We're an infantry brigade, our primary mission is ground fighting. This is as real as it gets.

3. David Letterman:

   We were in some helicopters. What we didn’t know was, we were north of the invasion. We were the northernmost Americans in Iraq, we were going to drop some bridge portions across the Euphrates so the Third Infantry could cross on them. Two of the four helicopters were hit, by ground fire, including the one I was in, RPG and AK-47.

4. Private First Class Ernest Marvel:

   We went by the Statue of Liberty, and all that was in our minds was we might never see it again, but we made it back — a lot of us, sniper rifleman Leslie Simmler of West Chester, Pennsylvania, landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy with Infantry Division ….

5. Ashley Givens:

   The Army has chosen to increase the cross-country mobility of the Bradley, allowing it to go further into off-road situations to support infantry formations.