"soldier on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soldiers on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soldiering on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soldiered on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soldiered on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "soldier on (third-person singular simple present soldiers on, present participle soldiering on, simple past and past participle soldiered on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He soldiered on through the night, working hard and not sleeping.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 June 17, Jim McMahon tells Richard Clinnick, “Stepping out of the shadows”, in Rail, page 41",
          "text": "But what was Northern meant to do, bearing in mind that the Class 142s and '144s' had to soldier on in service beyond their planned withdrawal dates, due to the late delivery of cascaded trains and the late entry into traffic of the £500m, 101-strong order of CAF multiple units?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty."
      ],
      "id": "en-soldier_on-en-verb-sx9hPIzn",
      "links": [
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "adversity",
          "adversity"
        ],
        [
          "difficulty",
          "difficulty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "battler"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
          "word": "seiglast við"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
          "word": "láta ekki deigan síga"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
          "word": "halda ótrauður áfram"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
          "word": "láta engan bilbug á sér finna"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
          "word": "halda sínu striki"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
          "word": "gefast ekki upp"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
          "word": "seguir en la brecha"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soldier on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soldiers on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soldiering on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soldiered on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "soldiered on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "soldier on (third-person singular simple present soldiers on, present participle soldiering on, simple past and past participle soldiered on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "battler"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He soldiered on through the night, working hard and not sleeping.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 June 17, Jim McMahon tells Richard Clinnick, “Stepping out of the shadows”, in Rail, page 41",
          "text": "But what was Northern meant to do, bearing in mind that the Class 142s and '144s' had to soldier on in service beyond their planned withdrawal dates, due to the late delivery of cascaded trains and the late entry into traffic of the £500m, 101-strong order of CAF multiple units?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "adversity",
          "adversity"
        ],
        [
          "difficulty",
          "difficulty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
      "word": "seiglast við"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
      "word": "láta ekki deigan síga"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
      "word": "halda ótrauður áfram"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
      "word": "láta engan bilbug á sér finna"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
      "word": "halda sínu striki"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
      "word": "gefast ekki upp"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty",
      "word": "seguir en la brecha"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soldier on"
}