grenadier

English

A Grenadier (sense 1).

Etymology

From French grenadier, corresponding to grenade +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɛnəˈdɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

grenadier (plural grenadiers)

2. (military) 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.
3. (ornithology) Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
4. (zoology) Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
5. (entomology) Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies, Agrionoptera insignis and Lathrecista asiatica, of Asia and Australia.

Derived terms

• giant grenadier
• Gray's grenadier anchovy
• roundnose grenadier

Translations

soldier

• Basque: granadari
• Bulgarian: гренадир m (grenadir)
• Czech: granátník m
• Finnish: krenatööri (fi)
• French: grenadier (fr) m
• Galician: granadeiro (gl) m
• German: Granatier, Granatierer, Grenadier (de)
• Greek: γρεναδιέρος (el) m (grenadiéros)
• Italian: granatiere (it) m
• Japanese: 擲弾兵 (ja) (てきだんへい, tekidanhei)
• Portuguese: granadeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: grenadier (ro) m
• Russian: гренаде́р (ru) m (grenadér)
• Swedish: grenadjär (sv) c

bird

• Finnish: piispa (fi) (bishop), sinipeippo (fi) (grenadier)

fish

• Bulgarian: миша опашка f (miša opaška)
• Finnish: lestikala
• Greenlandic: imminnguaq

Anagrams

• earringed, rereading, Readinger, Dearinger, garde rein

French

Etymology

From grenade +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁə.na.dje/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

grenadier m (plural grenadiers)

1. pomegranate tree

   Synonym: (obsolete) migrainier

2. (military) grenadier

Further reading

• “grenadier”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “grenadier”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “grenadier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• dénigrera

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

grenadier m (definite singular grenadieren, indefinite plural grenadiere, definite plural grenadierne)

1. a Grenadian (person from Grenada)

Related terms

• Grenada
• grenadisk

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French grenadier.

Noun

grenadier m (plural grenadieri)

1. grenadier

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	grenadier	grenadierul	grenadieri	grenadierii
genitive-dative	grenadier	grenadierului	grenadieri	grenadierilor
vocative	grenadierule		grenadierilor

Swedish

Etymology

Grenada +‎ -ier

Noun

grenadier c

1. person from Grenada

Usage notes

Not to be confused with grenadjär (“grenadier”).

Declension

Declension of grenadier

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	grenadier	grenadiers
	definite	grenadiern	grenadierns
plural	indefinite	grenadier	grenadiers
	definite	grenadierna	grenadiernas

Related terms

• Grenada
• grenadisk
• grenadiska

Anagrams

• girerande