Dictionary

lancer en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French lancier (“lancer”).

Meanings

1. A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
2. Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.
3. One who lances something.
   • The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […] 1968, Journal of Secondary Education:

Forms

Coordinates

trooper · cavalryman · hussar · dragoon · yeoman · cuirassier · uhlan

Synonyms

uhlan

Translations (16)

it lanciere (cavalry soldier with a lance) · ru пике́йщик (cavalry soldier with a lance) · lt ulonas (cavalry soldier with a lance) · el λογχοφόρος (cavalry soldier with a lance) · nl lansier (cavalry soldier with a lance) · fi peitsimies (cavalry soldier with a lance) · ru ула́н (cavalry soldier with a lance) · io lanciero (cavalry soldier with a lance) · cmn 長矛輕騎兵 /长矛轻骑兵 (cavalry soldier with a lance) · cs kopiník (cavalry soldier with a lance) · fa نیزهور (cavalry soldier with a lance) · ru копьеносец (cavalry soldier with a lance) · fr lancier (cavalry soldier with a lance) · pl lansjer (cavalry soldier with a lance) · ca llancer (cavalry soldier with a lance) · pl ułan (cavalry soldier with a lance)