Synonyms of servicemen

servicemen

noun

plural of serviceman

as in soldiers

a person engaged in military service

wishing our servicemen overseas the best of luck

Synonyms & Similar Words

• soldiers
• warriors
• fighters
• marines
• veterans
• troopers
• raiders
• legionaries
• rangers
• recruits
• legionnaires
• regulars
• dragoons
• servicewomen
• dogfaces
• knights
• partisans
• Confederates
• conscripts
• infantrymen
• men-at-arms
• combatants
• musketeers
• cavalrymen
• GIs
• doughboys
• riflemen
• guardsmen
• foot soldiers
• artillerymen
• cavaliers
• guerrillas
• reservists
• militiamen
• commandos
• Continentals
• noncombatants
• cannoneers
• archers
• paramilitaries
• cuirassiers
• draftees
• gunners
• footmen
• grunts
• irregulars
• jarheads
• lancers
• enrollees
• carabineers
• minutemen
• champions
• pikemen
• crossbowmen
• spearmen
• Federals
• mortarmen
• gendarmes
• diggers
• warhorses
• lifers
• counterguerrillas
• gallowglasses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• civilians

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of servicemen

In 1995, the rape of a 12-year-old girl by three US servicemen unleashed outrage and mass protests in Okinawa. — Junko Ogura, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

The presidential decree, which was published Monday on Russia’s official legal information database, will put the size of Russia’s armed forces at 2,441,630, including 1,550,500 active servicemen. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026

About 167,000 servicemen have returned from Ukraine, presidential administration official Sergei Novikov said in December, although Russian media reports and experts say the number is probably higher. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Its most prominent feature was the Rock, a small mountain honeycombed with thirty-four miles of tunnels that housed some sixteen thousand British servicemen as well as an American liaison office. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026

It's cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and the lives of 18 servicemen. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

The wreckage of the plane and 10 of the servicemen were never found. — Hope McKenney, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026

Rivers’ goal is to regenerate the psychic nerves of these shattered servicemen. — The Know, Denver Post, 7 June 2026

Her husband of 21 years is buried at the cemetery among more than 82,000 servicemen and women—many who served and never came home. — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 25 May 2026