army
Meanings
- A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
- Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.
- Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).
- The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
- A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
- A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
- Any multitude.
- The military as a whole.
- A sports team representing the US Military Academy at West Point.
- Hexagram 7 of the I Ching (䷆)
- The fandom of the K-pop boy band BTS.
- An individual fan of the K-pop boy band BTS.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder. Latin arma Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin armō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin armātus Anglo-Norman armeebor. Middle English armee English army From (1386) Middle English armee, borrowed from Old French armee (cf. modern French armée), from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), a noun taken from the past participle of Latin armāre (“to arm”), itself related to arma (“tools, arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”). Doublet of armada. Displaced native Old English here and fierd.