infantry

1. 1.

   an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

   “there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot”

   Synonymsfoot

   Broaderarmy unit

   Narrowerparatroops

   military

Other forms of infantry

plural

infantries·

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 infantry

What does infantry mean?

infantry means "an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot".

How many syllables are in infantry?

infantry has 3 syllables: in-fan-try. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnfəntɹi/.

What is another word for infantry?

Close synonyms include foot. 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 infantry a common word?

infantry is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.