ARMED SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armed service mean? 

• ARMED SERVICE (noun)
  The noun ARMED SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. a force that is a branch of the armed forces

  Familiarity information: ARMED SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMED SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A force that is a branch of the armed forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

armed service; military service; service

Hypernyms ("armed service" is a kind of...):

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

Meronyms (members of "armed service"):

force; military force; military group; military unit (a unit that is part of some military service)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armed service"):

army; ground forces; regular army (a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state)

naval forces; navy (an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare)

coastguard (a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters)

Marines (members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea)

air force; airforce (the airborne branch of a country's armed forces)