army
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
army/ˈɑːmi/
▶noun (pl. armies) [treated as sing. or pl.]
- 1 an organized military force equipped for fighting on land.
- 2 a large number of similar people or things.
– origin ME: from OFr. armee, from armata, fem. past part. of L. armare ‘to arm’.
'army' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablution
- adjutant general
- advance guard
- Anzac
- armed forces
- army ant
- army worm
- avant-garde
- banner
- BAOR
- Blighty
- body armour
- bounty
- breach
- bridgehead
- brigade
- brigadier
- brigadier general
- caddie
- call
- captain
- captain general
- centurion
- century
- chasseur
- citadel
- colonel
- colour sergeant
- company officer
- corporal
- corps
- dekko
- doolally
- driver ant
- drumhead
- ensign
- equites
- field marshal
- first lieutenant
- first sergeant
- force
- Foreign Legion
- front
- front line
- general
- generalissimo
- general of the army
- GI
- Green Beret
