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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun military has 1 sense
- military(n = noun.group) armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" has particulars: military reserve, reserve
is a kind of force, personnel
Derived forms verb militarise1, adjective militaristic1, verb militarize1
Adjective military has 3 senses
- military(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare; "military law"
- military(a = adj.all) Array - characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military; "military uniforms" Antonym: unmilitary
- military(a = adj.all) Array - associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians; "military police" Antonym: civilian
CIDE DICTIONARY
military, a. [L. militaris, militarius, from miles, militis, soldier: cf. F. militaire.].
- Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. [1913 Webster]"Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
Troop in the throngs of military men." [1913 Webster] - Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
military, n. [Cf. F. militaire.].
The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
military, adj. & n.
--adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of soldiers or armed forces.
--n. (as sing. or pl.; prec. by the) members of the armed forces, as distinct from civilians and the police.
--adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of soldiers or armed forces.
--n. (as sing. or pl.; prec. by the) members of the armed forces, as distinct from civilians and the police.
Idiom
military honours marks of respect paid by troops at the burial of a soldier, to royalty, etc. military police a corps responsible for police and disciplinary duties in the army. military policeman a member of the military police.
Derivative
militarily adv. militariness n.
Etymology
F militaire or L militaris f. miles militis soldier
THESAURUS
military
aggressive, air force, antagonistic, armed force, armed forces, armed service, army, array, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, career soldiers, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fighting machine, forces, full of fight, ground forces, ground troops, hawkish, host, hostile, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, legions, martial, militant, militaristic, military establishment, naval, navy, occupation force, offensive, paratroops, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rank and file, ranks, regular army, regulars, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, service, ski troops, soldierlike, soldierly, soldiery, standing army, storm troops, the line, the military, trigger-happy, troops, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warringROGET THESAURUS
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Warfare
N warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword, Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella, bloodshed, appeal to arms, appeal to the sword, ordeal of battle, wager of battle, ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword, battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations, mobilization, state of siege, battlefield, theater of operations, warpath, art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation, generalship, soldiership, logistics, military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery, chivalry, gunpowder, shot, battle, tug of war, service, campaigning, active service, tented field, kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel, fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan, war-cry, war-whoop, battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom, calumet of war, word of command, password, watchword, passage d-armes, war to the death, war to the knife, guerre a mort, guerre a outrance, open war, internecine war, civil war, contending, contentious, armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie, sword in hand, in arms, under arms, up in arms, at war with, bristling with arms, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, embattled, battled, unpacific, unpeaceful, belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike, military, militant, soldier-like, soldierly, chivalrous, strategical, internecine, flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth, at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet, Int, vae victis!, to arms!, to your tents O Israel!, the battle rages, a la guerre comme a la guerre, bis peccare in bello non licet, jus gladii, my voice is still for war, 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it, my sentence is for open war, pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, the cannons have their bowels full of wrath, the cannons aspit forth their iron indignation, the fire-eyed maid of smoky war, silent leges inter arma, si vis pacem para bellum.
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