army 
army (är′mē)
noun pl. -·mies
- a large, organized body of soldiers for waging war, esp. on land
- a military unit, usually two or more army corps, together with auxiliary troops
- standing army
- a large organization of persons for a specific cause the Salvation Army
- any large number of persons, animals, etc. considered as a whole the army of the unemployed
Etymology: ME & OFr armee < armer, arm, v.
army
modif.
army
n.
Military land forces
armed force, standing army, regulars, soldiery, soldiers, troops, men, cavalry, force de frappe (French), infantry, artillery, land forces, reserves, militia, the military; see also air force, artillery 2, infantry.A unit of an army, sense 1
division, regiment, air mobile division, armored division, airborne division, infantry division, regiment, battalion, company, battery, corps, brigade, flight, wing, amphibious force, task force, detail, detachment, squad, troop, platoon, blocking force, patrol, unit, command, formation, point, squadron, maniple, cohort, decury, column, legion, platoon, outfit. Any large group
Converse of object
- join: Gilbert Vincent, very young at the time, joins the army to serve in India.
- defeat: The Warsaw Uprising was a valiant attempt in 1944 by the Home Army of Warsaw to defeat the German army in their city.
Adjective modifier
- Confederate: Another 5,000 were killed during the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
- German: Of half a million vehicles, suddenly the German army lost 150,000.
- Iraqi: However, numerous factors must first be weighed, including the fighting capability of the Iraqi army.
- British: In all, four Thompson brothers served in the British Army during the Great War.
- Russian: I have no precise information about the Russian army.
Modifies a noun
- barracks: The remains were found on the site of an old army barracks undergoing development by builders.
- commander: Three out of five marshals and fourteen out of sixteen army commanders were executed.
- cadet: His love of the outdoors first blossomed upon joining the cubs and then scouts followed by the army cadet force.
- chaplain: During the war I went to the Catholic army chaplain and asked if it was right for me to fight in this war.
- surplus: With over 50 years experience in the army surplus business we are the specialists in all Genuine British Kit.
- officer: Count von Zeppelin, a retired German army officer, flew his first airship in 1900.
Noun used with modifier
- conscript: All across Europe the great conscript armies are being dismantled.
- ako: I wonder whom you are destined 1 ako army mail web for.
- standing: Another standing army uses 20th century style assault rifles firing glass ammunition.
- royalist: Urgent orders were sent to Lord Goring to rejoin the main Royalist army with his cavalry.
- panzer: What matters now is that the panzer armies reach their objectives.
The services of a menial servant, taking him as an example of unproductive labour,'generally perish in the very instant of their performance'öand forthwith into this galley, along with the menial servant, goes the sovereign, accompanied by all the army, the navy, and the civil service, followed by churchmen, lawyers, buffoons and opera dancers. All theseöand it is a hard sayingörender services which perish in the very instant of their performance. 368
There is, then, over the affairs of the armya universal conspiracy of silence, of childlike mysteries, of clannishness, routine and intrigue.
I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. MonsieurTallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.
In the early morning the mill girls clumping down the cobbled street, all in clogs, making a curiously formidable sound, like an army hurrying into battle. I suppose this is the typical sound of Lancashire.
An army marches on its stomach.
Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars With memory of the old revolt from Awe, He reached the middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
The Soviet Republic needs an army that will be able to fight and conquer.
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army isthe non-commissioned man!
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or abject submission.We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.
Efficiencyis measured at the extremities.You do not find the efficiency of an army at headquarters, nor of a firminhead office.It isattheremotest pointötheprivate soldier or humble legionary on the distant frontier, the girl at the counter or the branch-office junior salesman öthat the really decisive test of an army or a firm is made.It istherethat all theinstructionand knowledge of relevant facts and procedural disciplines bear fruitöor wither on the tree.
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.
O flower of Scotland, when will we see your like again, That fought and died for your wee bit hill and glen And stood against him, proud Edward's army, And sent him homeward tae think again.
A king who wants to maintain an army can never have too much gold.
We were a self-centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that ourearlier ambitions faded in its glare.
Igreet you as the advanceguard of the world proletarian army. The hour is not far off whenthe German people will turn their weapons againsttheircapitalist exploiters. The sun of the socialist revolution has already risen.
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