battalion

English

Etymology

From Middle French battaillon (modern French bataillon).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈtæliən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

battalion (plural battalions)

1. (military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
2. (US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
3. Any large body of troops.
4. (by extension) A great number of things.

Synonyms

• (great number of things): heap, horde, load, mass, pile, swathe

Derived terms

• battalion tactical group
• construction battalion
• pals battalion

Translations

army unit

• Afrikaans: bataljon
• Albanian: batalion (sq) m
• Arabic: كَتِيبَة f (katība)
• Armenian: գումարտակ (hy) (gumartak)
• Azerbaijani: tabor
• Belarusian: батальён m (batalʹjón), дывізіён m (dyvizijón), дывізыён m (dyvizyjón)
• Bulgarian: батальо́н m (bataljón)
• Burmese: တပ်ရင်း (my) (tap-rang:)
• Catalan: batalló (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 營 / 营 (zh) (yíng), 大隊 / 大队 (zh) (dàduì)

• Crimean Tatar: batalyon
• Czech: prapor (cs) m
• Danish: bataljon (da) c
• Dutch: bataljon (nl) n
• Erzya: коцталкс (koctalks)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: pataljon
• Finnish: pataljoona (fi)
• French: bataillon (fr) m

  Middle French: please add this translation if you can

• Georgian: ბატალიონი (baṭalioni)
• German: Bataillon (de) n, Sanitätsbataillon n (medical)
• Greek: τάγμα (el) n (tágma)
• Hebrew: גְּדוּד (he) m (gdud)
• Hindi: बटालियन (hi) m (baṭāliyan)
• Hungarian: zászlóalj (hu)
• Indonesian: batalyon (id), batalion (id)
• Irish: cathlán
• Italian: battaglione (it) m, compagnia (it) f
• Japanese: 大隊 (ja) (だいたい, daitai)
• Kazakh: батальон (batalon)
• Khmer: ^{(please verify)} កងវរសេនាតូច (kângôvrôsénéatoch)
• Korean: 대대(大隊) (ko) (daedae)
• Kyrgyz: батальон (ky) (batalon)
• Latvian: bataljons m
• Lithuanian: bataljonas m
• Macedonian: баталјо́н m (bataljón)
• Malay: batalion
• Maori: pātariana, ope taua
• Norman: bataillon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bataljon (no) m

• Persian: گردان (fa) (gardân), باطالیون (bâtâlyon)
• Polish: batalion (pl) m, baon (pl) m
• Portuguese: batalhão (pt) m
• Romanian: batalion (ro) n
• Russian: батальо́н (ru) m (batalʹón), дивизио́н (ru) m (divizión) (artillery or cavalry)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: батаљон m

  Roman: bataljon (sh) m

• Slovak: prápor m
• Slovene: bataljon (sl) m
• Spanish: batallón (es) m
• Swahili: batalioni
• Swedish: bataljon (sv) c
• Tajik: батальон (batalon), гурдон (gurdon)
• Telugu: పటాలము (te) (paṭālamu)
• Thai: กองพัน (th) (gɔɔng-pan)
• Turkish: tabur (tr)
• Ukrainian: батальйо́н (uk) m (batalʹjón), дивізіо́н m (dyvizión)
• Uzbek: batalon (uz)
• Vietnamese: tiểu đoàn (vi)

any large body of troops

• Afrikaans: bataljon
• Albanian: batalion (sq) m
• Finnish: pataljoona (fi)
• French: bataillon (fr) m
• German: Bataillon (de) n
• Greek: λεφούσι (el) n (lefoúsi), στίφος (el) n (stífos)
• Maori: ope taua
• Norman: bataillon m
• Portuguese: batalhão (pt) m
• Spanish: batallón (es) m

great number of things

• Greek: λεφούσι (el) n (lefoúsi), στίφος (el) n (stífos)

Verb

battalion (third-person singular simple present battalions, present participle battalioning, simple past and past participle battalioned)

1. To form into battalions.

Anagrams

• antibloat