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buffalo soldier

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

Syllables
buf-falo -sol-dier
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War.

American usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

buffalo soldiers (plural)

Questions

What does buffalo soldier mean?
An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War.

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