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English
Etymology
From reserve + -ist.
Noun
reservist (plural reservists)
- A soldier who is assigned as reserved; after training, no longer in full active duty.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 124:One of the men there, a reservist he said he was, told my brother he had seen the heliograph flickering in the west.
Synonyms
Translations
a soldier who is assigned as reserved; after training, no longer in full active duty
- Albanian: rezervist (sq) m, rezerviste f
- Armenian: ռեզերվիստ (hy) (ṙezervist), պահեստային (hy) (pahestayin)
- Belarusian: рэзерві́ст m (rezjervíst), рэзерві́стка f (rezjervístka)
- Bulgarian: запасня́к m (zapasnják), запасня́чка f (zapasnjáčka), резерви́ст m (rezervíst), резерви́стка f (rezervístka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 預備役／预备役 (zh) (yùbèiyì), 預備隊／预备队 (zh) (yùbèiduì)
- Czech: záložník (cs) m, záložnice f
- Danish: reservist c
- Dutch: reservist (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: reservväelane
- Finnish: reserviläinen
- French: réserviste (fr) m or f
- Georgian: რეზერვისტი (rezervisṭi)
- German: Reservist (de) m, Reservistin f
- Greek: έφεδρος (el) m (éfedros), έφεδρη (el) f (éfedri)
- Hungarian: tartalékos (hu)
- Italian: riservista (it) m or f
- Japanese: 予備兵 (よびへい, yobihei)
- Korean: 예비병(豫備兵) (ko) (yebibyeong), 후비병(後備兵) (hubibyeong)
- Latvian: rezervists m, rezerviste f
- Lithuanian: rezervistas m, rezervistė f
- Macedonian: резерви́ст m (rezervíst), резерви́стка f (rezervístka), ре́диф m (rédif) (archaic), ре́дифка f (rédifka) (archaic)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: reservist m
- Polish: rezerwista m, rezerwistka f
- Portuguese: reservista m or f
- Romanian: rezervist (ro) m, rezervistă f
- Russian: резерви́ст (ru) m (rezervíst), резерви́стка f (rezervístka), запа́сник (ru) m (zapásnik), военнообя́занный запа́са m (vojennoobjázannyj zapása), военнообя́занный в запа́се m (vojennoobjázannyj v zapáse)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: резѐрвист m, резѐрвистица (sh) f
- Roman: rezèrvist (sh) m, rezèrvistica (sh) f
- Slovak: záložník m, záložníčka f
- Slovene: rezervist m, rezervistka f
- Spanish: reservista m or f
- Swedish: reservare c, reservist (sv) c
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: резерві́ст m (rezervíst), резерві́стка f (rezervístka), запасни́к m (zapasnýk)
- Uzbek: rezervist (uz)
- Vietnamese: lính trừ bị
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Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French réserviste. Equivalent to reserve + -ist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌreː.zɛrˈvɪst/, /ˌreː.zərˈvɪst/
- Hyphenation: re‧ser‧vist
- Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
reservist m (plural reservisten)
- (military) reservist