ARMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Army mean? 

• ARMY (noun)
  The noun ARMY has 3 senses:

1. a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state

2. a large number of people united for some specific purpose

3. the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare

  Familiarity information: ARMY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

army; ground forces; regular army

Hypernyms ("army" is a kind of...):

armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)

Meronyms (members of "army"):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

army corps; corps (an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support)

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 "army"):

host; legion (archaic terms for army)

standing army (a permanent army of paid soldiers)

Union Army (the northern army during the American Civil War)

Army of the Confederacy; Confederate Army (the southern army during the American Civil War)

Continental Army (the American army during the American Revolution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large number of people united for some specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("army" is a kind of...):

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; US Army; USA

Hypernyms ("Army" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Meronyms (parts of "Army"):

Army National Guard; ARNG (a civilian reserve component of the United States Army comprised of guardsmen who serve during overseas peacekeeping missions and during local emergencies)

AI; Army Intelligence (an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders)

United States Military Academy; US Military Academy (a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Army)

United States Army Rangers (a specially trained elite unit of the United States Army)

Special Forces; U. S. Army Special Forces; United States Army Special Forces (a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting)

CID; Criminal Investigation Command (the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world)

AHPCRC; Army High Performance Computing Research Center (a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications; a partnership of government and university and industry)

Domain category:

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

Holonyms ("Army" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)

 Context examples 

He noted, "the army modernization does not just cover buying 'hardware' but technology transfer as well."

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or not he could offer any opposition to the enemy, who was superior in strength and had a mighty army.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

rVSV-ZEVOB was initially developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the United States Army.

(Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine, Wikinews)

A vaccine for adenoviruses that cause respiratory problems is already used by the US Army – evidence a vaccine for the obesity virus could be developed.

(Scientists Find Virus Linked to Weight Gain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He is now gone into the army,” she added; “but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The army officer he found good-natured and simple, a healthy, wholesome young fellow, content to occupy the place in life into which birth and luck had flung him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The horses of the army, and those of the royal stables, having been daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“The Army or the Navy is the place for you, Jim,” said I.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an Army coach.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)