ground forces

Questions about ground forces

What does ground forces mean?

ground forces means "a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state".

What is another word for ground forces?

Close synonyms include army, regular 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 ground forces a common word?

ground forces is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.