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. Mark Milley:

   Wars are the outcomes of battles and wars are the function of many, many variables, and in this case, you would have to make sure that your tanks are used in combined arms with mechanized infantry, artillery, all of that is synchronized with dismounted forces, etc. So there is no silver bullet in this case, but I do think the M1 tank when it’s delivered and it reaches its operational capability that it will be very effective on the battlefield.

2. 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.

3. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon:

   We are doubling up our training of Ukrainian forces. We've already trained around 650. By this autumn we will have trained nearly 1,000, we've already been training in battlefield medicine, infantry skills, logistics, in tactical intelligence.

4. Eduard Yakubovsky:

   Before, in the territory of the Donetsk region, there were 55 local courts ... employing 3,262 people. That's the size of a full-fledged mechanized infantry unit, the number of judges has now been reduced fourfold.

5. Mike Burns:

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