army

1. 1.

   a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state

   Synonymsregular armyground forces

   Broadermilitary service

   Narrowerhoststanding armyUnion ArmyConfederate ArmyContinental Army

   military

2. 2.

   a large number of people united for some specific purpose

   Broadercrowd
3. 3.

   the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare

   SynonymsUnited States ArmyUS ArmyU. S. ArmyUSA

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of Defense

   PartsArmy High Performance Computing Research CenterCriminal Investigation CommandSpecial ForcesUnited States Army RangersUnited States Military AcademyArmy Intelligence

   military

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.