MARINES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marines mean? 

• MARINES (noun)
  The noun MARINES has 2 senses:

1. an amphibious division of the United States Navy

2. members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea

  Familiarity information: MARINES used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARINES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An amphibious division of the United States Navy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "Marines"):

Marine Corps Intelligence Activity; MCIA (an agency of the United States Marine Corps that provides responsive and broad intelligence support for the worldwide Marine Corps organization)

Meronyms (members of "Marines"):

devil dog; leatherneck; Marine; shipboard soldier (a member of the United States Marine Corps)

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

Navy; United States Navy; US Navy; USN (the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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

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 "Marines"):

Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)

 Context examples 

I only know that I believe to this hour that he WAS in the Marines once upon a time, without knowing why.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged.

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

I cannot satisfy myself whether she told me that Mr. Micawber had been an officer in the Marines, or whether I have imagined it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)