Definition of army

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Army (n.) A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army..

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Tirailleur :: Tirailleur (n.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers..
Capitulate :: Capitulate (v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions..
In :: In (prep.) With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army..
Lieutenant General :: Lieutenant general () An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.
Captain :: Captain (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army..
Pentecosty :: Pentecosty (n.) A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys.
Turko :: Turko (n.) One of a body of native Algerian tirailleurs in the French army, dressed as a Turk..
Strengthen :: Strengthen (v. t.) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority..
Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance..
Preparation :: Preparation (n.) An army or fleet.
Marshal :: Marshal (v. t.) To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army..
Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc..
Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..
Stational :: Station (v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa..
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard..
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes..
Fair :: Fair (n.) A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair..
Estafette :: Estafette (n.) A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.
Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army..
Numerous :: Numerous (a.) Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army..
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