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INFANTRY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

Example:

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

Synonyms:

foot; infantry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("infantry" is a kind of...):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infantry"):

paratroops (infantry trained and equipped to parachute)

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