Synonyms of serviceman

serviceman

noun

ˈsər-vəs-ˌman 

as in soldier

a person engaged in military service

wishing our servicemen overseas the best of luck

Synonyms & Similar Words

• soldier
• warrior
• fighter
• marine
• veteran
• trooper
• raider
• ranger
• legionnaire
• legionary
• recruit
• dragoon
• Confederate
• dogface
• regular
• knight
• man-at-arms
• infantryman
• partisan
• servicewoman
• conscript
• cavalryman
• musketeer
• combatant
• rifleman
• doughboy
• Continental
• artilleryman
• guardsman
• cavalier
• GI
• reservist
• guerilla
• commando
• militiaman
• foot soldier
• partizan
• cannoneer
• gunner
• guerrilla
• Federal
• footman
• jarhead
• grunt
• archer
• paramilitary
• draftee
• irregular
• carabinier
• champion
• cuirassier
• lancer
• minuteman
• spearman
• mortarman
• enrollee
• counterguerrilla
• carabineer
• gendarme
• warhorse
• noncombatant
• counterguerilla
• digger
• pikeman
• crossbowman
• lifer
• gallowglass

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• civilian

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of serviceman

Russian servicemen at a front-line hospital in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday. —Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2025

Carter authorized a secret military mission to rescue the hostages in April 1980, but it was aborted at the desert staging area; during the withdrawal, eight servicemen were killed when a helicopter crashed into a transport aircraft. —Scott Kraft, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024

Thousands of servicemen and women suffered grave wounds or traumatic brain injuries. —Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025

Still, in eastern Ukraine, servicemen stood recently in a repair hangar lined with Soviet-era infantry fighting vehicles and newer arrivals from France. —Erin Banco, Anastasiia Malenko, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025