militia

Other forms of militia

plural

militias·

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 militia

What does militia mean?

militia means "civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in militia?

militia has 3 syllables: mi-lit-ia. The stress falls on "lit". In IPA it is /məˈlɪʃə/.

What is another word for militia?

Close synonyms include reserves. 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 militia a common word?

militia 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.