musketeer
/ˌmʌs.kəˈtɪə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A foot soldier armed with a musket.
noun
In 17th- and 18th-century France, a member of the royal household bodyguard.
Example Sentences
- "Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC’s misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point. But Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety."
- "This was the rock that Musk and his Musketeers planned to build their company on."
- "Mr Vance comes across as a “Musketeer”, someone who believes in Mr Musk’s power to reshape the world."
- "The young Musketeers, who apparently have your personal information at their fingertips, aren’t just inexperienced – they appear completely unqualified."
Etymology
From Middle French mousquetaire in the late 16th century. By surface analysis, musket + -eer. Doublet of mousquetaire.