Word Meanings - MILITARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,

Additional info about word: MILITARY

1. 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. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak. 2. Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition. Bacon. Military law. See Martial law, under Martial. -- Military order. A command proceeding from a military superior. An association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction. -- Military tenure, tenure of land, on condition of performing military service.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MILITARY)

• Army
• Troops
• soldiery
• legion
• soldiers
• military
• phalanx
• host
• multitude
• Martial
• Military
• brave
• warlike
• Warlike
• martial
• soldierly
• hostile
• bellicose
• soldierlike
• belligerent

Related words: (words related to MILITARY)

• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• MARTIALIST
  A warrior. Fuller.
• SOLDIERLY
  Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• BRAVENESS
  The quality of state or being brave.
• BRAVE
  Sp. bravo, fierce, wild, savage, prob. from. L. barbarus. See 1. Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act. 2. Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.
• MARTIAL
  Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. Martial flowers , a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. -- Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it
• WARLIKENESS
  Quality of being warlike.
• HOSTILELY
  In a hostile manner.
• MARTIALLY
  In a martial manner.
• WARLIKE
  1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak. 2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. Milton. Syn.
• BELLIGERENTLY
  In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
• MULTITUDE
  1. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. Matt. ix. 36. 2. A great number of persons or things, regarded
• LEGIONED
  Formed into a legion or legions; legionary. Shelley.
• PHALANX
  A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men. "In cubic phalanx firm advanced." Milton. The Grecian
• LEGION
  A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth. 2. A military force; an army; military bands. 3. A great number;
• SOLDIERSHIP
  Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. Shak.
• MARTIALISM
  The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war.
• MILITARY
  1. 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. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
• BRAVERY
  1. The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak. 2. The act of braving; defiance; bravado. Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons.
• LEGIONARY
  Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force. "The legionary body of error." Sir T. Browne.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• OVERMULTITUDE
  To outnumber.
• COBELLIGERENT
  Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.