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grenadiers

grenadiers is the plural of grenadier.

Meaning of grenadier

Noun

grenadier (plural grenadiers)

  1. A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the Grenadier Guards of Canada and the United Kingdom.
  2. Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
  3. Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
  4. Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies, Agrionoptera insignis and Lathrecista asiatica, of Asia and Australia.

Phrases with grenadiers

Questions about grenadiers

What is grenadiers the plural of?
Grenadiers is the plural of grenadier.

Words near grenadiers in the dictionary

  1. grenadelike
  2. grenades
  3. Grenadian
  4. Grenadians
  5. grenadier
  6. grenadiers
  7. grenadilla
  8. grenadillas
  9. grenadillo
  10. grenadin
  11. grenadine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grenadiers (page history and authors); grenadier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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