by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com. I'm sometimes asked by visitors thinking of starting their own website what terms like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl mean. Or, on occasion, their questions on some other topic show that they have misunderstood the meaning of these words.
Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Soldier. A soldier is one who fights as part of an organized land-based armed force; if that force is for hire the person is generally termed a mercenary soldier, or mercenary. The majority of cognates of the word soldier that exist in other languages have a meaning that embraces both commissioned and non-commissioned officers in national land forces. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (1.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:
Definition of CORPORAL. : a linen cloth on which the eucharistic elements are placed.ADVERTISEMENT.ords from the Latin corpus have something to do with the body. Corpor al is an adjective describing something that has to do with a person's or animal's body. A corpor al is a military officer who leads a body of soldiers. A corpor ation is a body, or group, of people who run a company.