grenadier

From French grenadier, corresponding to grenade +‎ -ier.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɛnəˈdɪə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

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.

• earringed, rereading, Readinger, Dearinger, garde rein

From grenade +‎ -ier.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁə.na.dje/

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grenadier m (plural grenadiers)

1. pomegranate tree

   Synonym: (obsolete) migrainier

2. (military) grenadier

• “grenadier” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “grenadier” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “grenadier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dénigrera

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

1. a Grenadian (person from Grenada)

• Grenada
• grenadisk

Borrowed from French grenadier.

grenadier m (plural grenadieri)

1. grenadier

Grenada +‎ -ier

grenadier c

1. person from Grenada

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

• Grenada
• grenadisk
• grenadiska

• girerande