territorial

1. 1.

   nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit

   Broadersoldier

   Part ofNational GuardTerritorial Army

   military

2. 2.

   a territorial military unit

   Synonymsterritorial reserve

   Broaderguard

   NarrowerNational GuardTerritorial Army

   Part ofmilitia

   military

Other forms of territorial

plural

territorials·

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 territorial

What does territorial mean?

territorial means "of or relating to a territory". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in territorial?

territorial has 5 syllables: ter-ri-to-ri-al. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /ˌtɛɹɪˈtɔɹiəl/.

What is another word for territorial?

Close synonyms include territorial reserve. 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.

What is the opposite of territorial?

The recorded antonyms are nonterritorial, extraterritorial.

Is territorial a common word?

territorial 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.

What rhymes with territorial?

12 words rhyme with territorial. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.