Mercenary Synonyms and Antonyms

mûrsə-nĕrē
A freelance fighter
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. soldier of fortune
  2. soldier
  3. legionnaire
  4. adventurer
  5. condottiere
  6. covetous
  7. professional soldier
  8. extortioner
  9. greedy
  10. hessian
  11. hack
  12. hireling
  13. janissary
  14. pensionary
  15. sordid
  16. venal
  17. vendible
  18. warrior
Serving for wages in a foreign army
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. free lance
  2. freelance

Words Related to Mercenary

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Mercenary Sentence Examples

  • Not having received satisfaction he became a freebooter on land and sea, and mercenary soldier.

  • In Hungary it was applied to a class of mercenary foot-soldiers of Magyar stock.

  • The poverty-stricken and barbarous Nubians were strong and courageous, and gladly served in Egypt as mercenary soldiers and police.

  • Gauls, Samnites, Tyrrhenians, fought for him, while mercenary Greeks and Syracusan exiles fought for Carthage.

  • The conditions which have the five been described, of despotism, mercenary warfare and bourgeois prosperity, determined the character of this epoch, which was also the period when the great achievements of the Renaissance were prepared.

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