Battalion
[bə'tælɪən] or [bə'tæljən]
Definition
(noun.) an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies.
(noun.) a large indefinite number; 'a battalion of ants'; 'a multitude of TV antennas'; 'a plurality of religions'.
Editor: Omar--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
(n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
(v. t.) To form into battalions.
Editor: Lois
Definition
n. a body of soldiers consisting of several companies: a body of men drawn up in battle-array.
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Examples
- Take this sportsman and get back to your battalion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Only two or three evolutions had been gone through when he dismissed the battalion, and, turning to go to his own quarters, dropped dead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Nelson's Garden's Rowan Huger's Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Milledge Fluvauna Brown's Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Smith, and a battalion under Harry Wayne. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Staunton Courtney Carter's Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Atkinson commanding, and containing 12th Georgia Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Accordingly, when we got settled down at our new post, he took command of the regiment at a battalion drill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A battalion was thrown to the rear, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Childs, of the artillery, as reserves. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the Mexican war in the summer of 1846, I had been appointed regimental quartermaster and commissary and had not been at a battalion drill since. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She's Colour-Sergeant of the Nonpareil battalion, said Mr. Bagnet, looking at us over his shoulder as he went his way also. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Stafford Alleghany Cutshaw's Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had then roused his adjutant, turned over the battalion to him, and sent his orderly to wake up and bring his motorcyclist. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They have decided at last that we are a battalion of incendiary, blood-thirsty Garibaldians in disguise! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Jeff Davis Nelson's Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes, they give the battalions in the front line as much as they can but the ones in back are very short. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Surrounded on all sides by the Sultan's swarming battalions, the Christian Knights fought on without a hope for their lives. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He killed a couple of battalions of cats (Tangier is full of them) and made a parlor carpet out of their hides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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