reservist
reservist noun: a soldier who is assigned as reserved: after training, no longer on full active duty.
Noun
reservist (plural reservists)
- A soldier who is assigned as reserved: after training, no longer on full active duty.
- One of the men there, a reservist he said he was, told my brother he had seen the heliograph flickering in the west.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 124
- Synonyms:
- weekend warrior
reservist meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Vietnamese
reservist in Tamil
- போர்க்காலப் படைவீரர்
reservist in Kannada
- ಕೈಗಾವಲು ಪಡೆಯ ಸೈನಿಕ, ಮೀಸಲು ಸೈನಿಕ
reservist in Vietnamese
- soldier assigned as reserved
- lính trừ bị
Synonyms of reservist
Forms of reservist
| plural | reservists |
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Origin of reservist
From reserve + -ist.
Questions about reservist
- What does reservist mean?
- Reservist means a soldier who is assigned as reserved: after training, no longer on full active duty.
- What is reservist in Tamil?
- Reservist in Tamil is போர்க்காலப் படைவீரர். See Reservist meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is reservist?
- Reservist is a noun.
- What is the plural of reservist?
- The plural of reservist is reservists.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: reservist (page history and authors); reservist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reservist (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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