army

Other forms of army

plural

armies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about army

What does army mean?

army means "a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in army?

army has 2 syllables: ar-my. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈɑɹmi/.

What is another word for army?

Close synonyms include regular army, ground forces, United States Army, US Army, U. S. Army. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is army a common word?

army is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.