'Army' definitions:
Definition of 'army'
From: WordNet
noun
A permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state [syn: army, regular army, ground forces]
noun
A large number of people united for some specific purpose
noun
The army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare [syn: United States Army, US Army, U. S. Army, Army, USA]
Definition of 'Army'
From: Easton
- Army The Israelites marched out of Egypt in military order (Ex. 13:18, "harnessed;" marg., "five in a rank"). Each tribe formed a battalion, with its own banner and leader (Num. 2:2; 10:14). In war the army was divided into thousands and hundreds under their several captains (Num. 31:14), and also into families (Num. 2:34; 2 Chr. 25:5; 26:12). From the time of their entering the land of Canaan to the time of the kings, the Israelites made little progress in military affairs, although often engaged in warfare. The kings introduced the custom of maintaining a bodyguard (the Gibborim; i.e., "heroes"), and thus the nucleus of a standing army was formed. Saul had an army of 3,000 select warriors (1 Sam. 13:2; 14:52; 24:2). David also had a band of soldiers around him (1 Sam. 23:13; 25:13). To this band he afterwards added the Cherethites and the Pelethites (2 Sam. 15:18; 20:7). At first the army consisted only of infantry (1 Sam. 4:10; 15:4), as the use of horses was prohibited (Deut. 17:16); but chariots and horses were afterwards added (2 Sam. 8:4; 1 Kings 10:26, 28, 29; 1 Kings 9:19). In 1 Kings 9:22 there is given a list of the various gradations of rank held by those who composed the army. The equipment and maintenance of the army were at the public expense (2 Sam. 17:28, 29; 1 Kings 4:27; 10:16, 17; Judg. 20:10). At the Exodus the number of males above twenty years capable of bearing arms was 600,000 (Ex. 12:37). In David's time it mounted to the number of 1,300,000 (2 Sam. 24:9).
Synonyms of 'army'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a mass of,
- a world of,
- armed force,
- armed service,
- army group,
- array,
- battalion,
- battery,
- battle group,
- bevy,
- brigade,
- bunch,
- cadre,
- career soldiers,
- cloud,
- cluster,
- clutter,
- cohort,
- cohue,
- colony,
- column,
- combat command,
- combat team,
- company,
- corps,
- covey,
- crowd,
- crush,
- deluge,
- detachment,
- detail,
- division,
- drift,
- drive,
- drove,
- field army,
- field train,
- fighting machine,
- file,
- flight,
- flock,
- flocks,
- flood,
- flying column,
- forces,
- galaxy,
- gam,
- gang,
- garrison,
- ground forces,
- ground troops,
- hail,
- heap,
- herd,
- hive,
- horde,
- host,
- jam,
- kennel,
- kitchen police,
- KP,
- large amount,
- legion,
- legions,
- litter,
- lots,
- maniple,
- many,
- mass,
- masses of,
- military establishment,
- mob,
- muchness,
- multitude,
- nest,
- numbers,
- occupation force,
- organization,
- outfit,
- pack,
- panoply,
- paratroops,
- phalanx,
- platoon,
- plurality,
- pod,
- posse,
- press,
- pride,
- quantities,
- quite a few,
- rabble,
- rank,
- rank and file,
- ranks,
- regiment,
- regular army,
- regulars,
- rout,
- ruck,
- school,
- scores,
- section,
- shoal,
- ski troops,
- skulk,
- sloth,
- soldiery,
- spate,
- squad,
- squadron,
- standing army,
- storm troops,
- swarm,
- tactical unit,
- task force,
- the line,
- the military,
- throng,
- tidy sum,
- train,
- trip,
- troop,
- troops,
- unit,
- wing,
- worlds of
Words containing 'Army'
- Army corps,
- Center of an army,
- Flying army,
- Salvation Army,
- Standing army,
- army ant,
- army attache,
- army base,
- army brat,
- army cutworm,
- army engineer,
- army hut,
- army intelligence,
- army of muhammad,
- army of the confederacy,
- army of the pure,
- army of the righteous,
- army officer,
- army tank,
- army unit,
- army worm,
- confederate army,
- continental army,
- corsican army,
- network army,
- regular army,
- territorial army,
- u. s. army,
- union army,
- us army,
- Grand Army of the Republic,
- Southern army worm,
- To turn a hostile army,
- army for the liberation of rwanda,
- army national guard,
- continuity army council,
- irish republican army,
- islamic army of aden,
- japanese red army,
- lord's resistance army,
- national liberation army,
- new people's army,
- people's liberation army,
- people's republican army,
- red army faction,
- revolutionary proletarian army,
- trespass viet armis,
- united states army,
- women's army corps,
- Mobile Army Surgical Hospital,
- continuity irish republican army,
- dissident irish republican army,
- irish national liberation army,
- provisional irish republican army,
- real irish republican army,
- tupac katari guerrilla army,
- u. s. army special forces,
- united states army rangers,
- aden-abyan islamic army,
- armenian secret army for the liberation of armenia,
- islamic army of aden-abyan,
- u.s. army criminal investigation laboratory,
- united states army special forces,
- us army criminal investigation laboratory,
- army high performance computing research center,
- united states army criminal investigation laboratory