Other forms: armies
An army is all the land soldiers of a country together. Join the army, the British Army, an army of two hundred thousand.
The army is the land force, the navy the sea force and the air force the air, and together they are the armed forces or the military. Ranks run from private to general. Figuratively, an army is any large organised group: an army of volunteers, an army of lawyers. Note the Salvation Army; and that an army marches on its stomach is attributed to Napoleon and means supply decides everything.
1nounarmyAll the land soldiers of a country together.~98%
“The army was sent to help after the floods.”
synonyms: military, forces
2nounlargeAny large organised group.~2%
“An army of volunteers cleaned up the beach after the storm.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 6 sentences found in the wild and placed 6 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
army is a fighting force or large group.
Also accepted in games: military
Latin armata means an armed force, from arma, weapons — the same root as arm, armour and armistice. The word for the body of soldiers is named after their equipment.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂er-
Middle English
armee
English, today
army
Built from
From Middle English armee. 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”). a doublet of armada. Displaced native here and fierd.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA