Meaning of army | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
2. The fandom of the K-pop boy band BTS.
   slang, uncountable
3. A sports team representing the US Military Academy at West Point.
4. Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.
5. An individual fan of the K-pop boy band BTS.
   countable, slang
6. Hexagram 7 of the I Ching (䷆)
7. A very large number of things grouped together:cloud, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck, score (used in plural), swarm, throng.
8. Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).
   capitalized, often
9. the place where weapons are made or kept. wapenopslag مُسْتَودَع أسْلِحَه، مَصْنَع أسْلِحَه арсенал arsenal arzenál, zbrojnice die Waffenfabrik; das Waffenlager våbendepot οπλοστάσιο arsenal relvistu انبار تسلیحات arsenaali arsenal נַשָקִיָה शस्त्रागार oružarnica fegyver(rak)tár gudang senjata vopnabúr arsenale 兵器庫 병기고 ginklinė, arsenalas arsenāls gedung senjata wapenkamervåpenarsenalzbrojownia د تسلیحاتو انبار arsenal arsenal арсенал arzenál, zbrojnica orožarna fabrika (skladište) oružja vap...
10. The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
11. A large body of people organized and trained for land warfare.
12. A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
    figuratively
13. A large group of people or things, especially when organized for a specific cause or purpose: the construction army that built the Panama Canal; a banquet with an army of waiters. See Synonyms at multitude.
14. A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
    figuratively
15. (Military) the military land forces of a nation
16. Any multitude.
    figuratively
17. (Military) a military unit usually consisting of two or more corps with supporting arms and services
18. The military as a whole.
19. (Military) (modifier) of, relating to, or characteristic of an army: army rations.
    modifier
20. any large body of people united for some specific purpose
21. a large number of people, animals, etc; multitude
22. the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.

Equivalents

Examples

“An army never can be commanded or controlled by civilians.”

“The army was sent in to quell the uprising.”

“This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (with a good deal of literary overkill) that wars are mass insanity and that armies are madhouses.”

“The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force.”

“The Fourth Army suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second Army, also deployed on the Western front.”

“The army opposed the legislature's involvement.”

“It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud.”

“On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds.”

“Mr. Tenev, 33, is now in the hot seat again after Robinhood abruptly curtailed its customers’ trading last week amid a frenzy in stocks such as GameStop, which were driven sky high by an army of online investors.”

“Our house is being attacked by an army of ants.”

“There was an army of construction cranes working on building the skyscraper.”

“The People's Liberation Army Navy of China.”

“The Yugoslav Army consisted of the War Navy, Ground Forces, and Air Force.”

“Iran's army consists of the Navy, Ground Forces, and Air Force.”

“Army has several returning starters this year.”

“ARMY are clever, too: they urged fans not to buy J-Hope's mixtape Hope World on its release date, having worked out that delaying by a day would result in a higher ranking in the Billboard charts.”

“In this manner, ARMY gives charity in the name of BTS, and BTS responds by returning charity back to society in the name of ARMY.”

“The BTS boys love telling ARMY how important they are to them—without ARMY's unwavering love and support, BTS wouldn't be where they are today.”

“Entering the theater, I expected the room to be filled with ARMYs decked out in their BTS merchandise.”

“It began when an ARMY tweeted something along the lines of: “If there are so many of us everywhere in the world, shouldn't we make a change and help people?””

“As of this writing, the Philippines is not included in the tour but Filipino ARMYs are hoping the group will eventually perform in Manila for a fourth time.”

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