"tin soldier" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tin soldiers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tin soldier (plural tin soldiers)
  1. A toy soldier made out of tin. Categories (topical): Toys Translations (toy soldier): оловен войник (oloven vojnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 錫兵 (Chinese Mandarin), 锡兵 (xī bīng) (Chinese Mandarin), tinsoldat [common-gender] (Danish), tinasõdur (Estonian), tinasotilas (Finnish), tinasotamies (Finnish), soldat de plomb [masculine] (French), Zinnsoldat [masculine] (German), ólomkatona (Hungarian), tindáti [masculine] (Icelandic), スズの兵隊 (suzu no heitai) (Japanese), ブリキの兵隊 (buriki no heitai) (Japanese), оловен војник (oloven vojnik) [masculine] (Macedonian), tinnsoldat [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tinnsoldat [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), żołnierzyk [masculine] (Polish), soldadinho de chumbo [masculine] (Portuguese), оловя́нный солда́тик (olovjánnyj soldátik) [masculine] (Russian), oловни војник [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), olovni vojnik [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tennsoldat (Swedish), kurşun asker (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-tin_soldier-en-noun-81dxOZu7 Disambiguation of Toys: 61 39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 71 29 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 60 40 Disambiguation of 'toy soldier': 84 16
  2. (derogatory) One who only plays at being a soldier. Tags: derogatory
    Sense id: en-tin_soldier-en-noun-UFzjoz~l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47

Inflected forms

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