Regiment
['redʒɪm(ə)nt] or ['rɛdʒɪmənt]
Definition
(noun.) army unit smaller than a division.
(verb.) assign to a regiment; 'regiment soldiers'.
(verb.) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization; 'regiment one's children'.
(verb.) form (military personnel) into a regiment.
Edited by Lancelot--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.
(n.) A region or district governed.
(n.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.
(v. t.) To form into a regiment or into regiments.
Typist: Natalie
Definition
n. a body of soldiers constituting the largest permanent unit commanded by a colonel: rule.—v.t. to form into a regiment: to organise.—adj. Regiment′al relating to a regiment.—n.pl. the uniform of a regiment.—n. Regimentā′tion classification.—Regimental district the territory allotted to each regiment for recruiting purposes.
Edited by Eileen
Examples
- Colonel O'Dowd, of the --th regiment, one of those occupying in Paris, warned Lieutenant Spooney of that corps. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- On the march you saw her at the head of the regiment seated on a royal elephant, a noble sight. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I felt some hesitation in suggesting rank as high as the colonelcy of a regiment, feeling somewhat doubtful whether I would be equal to the position. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A Chicago regiment, the 19th infantry, had elected a very young man to the colonelcy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 22d Colonel Rodney Mason surrendered Clarksville with six companies of his regiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Along this road they retreated on the next day, and here was the bank at which the regiment bivouacked under the rain of the night of the seventeenth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Is he a man in a line-regiment? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Logan entered the service himself as colonel of a regiment and rapidly rose to the rank of major-general. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I heard that Barclay had married Nancy, and that he was rising rapidly in the regiment, but even that did not make me speak. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- First there had been columns, then there were regiments, then there were brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Under these circumstances it is not astonishing that many of the regiments broke at the first fire. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The quota of Illinois had been fixed at six regiments; and it was supposed that one company would be as much as would be accepted from Galena. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was a brigade composed of six full regiments commanded by Colonel Thayer, of Nebraska. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We immediately made application to be transferred, so as to get back to our old regiments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Two choice regiments, recently arrived from Lombardy, led the onset, rending the air with their shouts and confident of an easy victory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At last all the examinations were passed, and the members of the class were called upon to record their choice of arms of service and regiments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The regiments in the line get pretty good food but those in support don't get so much. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Palmer was my senior and commanded the two regiments as long as we remained together. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This brought into the United States service all the regiments then in the State service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In other countries, the militia has not only been exercised, but regimented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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