Nŏn-cŏm'bat-ant, n.

n. (Mil.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, the chaplains, the musicians, teamsters, and others, also any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.