Cavalry Definition

kăvəl-rē
cavalries
noun
cavalries
Combat troops mounted originally on horses but now often riding in motorized armored vehicles.
Webster's New World
A highly mobile army unit using vehicular transport, such as light armor and helicopters.
American Heritage
Troops trained to fight on horseback.
American Heritage
(military) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
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Other Word Forms of Cavalry

Noun

Singular:
cavalry
Plural:
cavalries

Origin of Cavalry

  • French cavalerie from Italian cavalleria from cavaliere cavalier from Old Italian cavalier

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French cavalerie, in turn from Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s.

    From Wiktionary

Cavalry Sentence Examples

  • Out of the blue, the cavalry comes to the rescue.

  • They might be the ones that sent the cavalry our way.

  • In less than two years he had taken his rank as one of the great cavalry leaders of history.

  • If the Indians were renegades, surely they wouldn't want to take the time to track only two people - not with the cavalry on their trail.

  • They were still firing, not at the cavalry which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the hollow and were firing at our men.

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