battalion

English

Etymology

From French bataillon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈtælɪən/

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

Translations

army unit

• Albanian: batalion (sq) m
• Armenian: գումարտակ (hy) (gumartak)
• Catalan: batalló (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Crimean Tatar: batalyon
• Czech: prapor (cs) m
• Danish: bataljon c
• Erzya: коцталкс (koctalks)
• Estonian: pataljon
• Finnish: pataljoona (fi)
• French: bataillon (fr) m
• German: Bataillon (de) n, Sanitätsbataillon n (medical)
• Greek: τάγμα (el) n (tágma)
• Hebrew: גדוד‎ (he) m (gdud)
• Hindi: बटालियन (hi) m (baṭāliyan)
• Hungarian: zászlóalj (hu)
• Indonesian: batalyon (id), batalion (id)

• Interlingue: battallion
• Irish: cathlán
• Italian: battaglione (it) m, compagnia (it) f
• Japanese: 大隊 (ja) (だいたい, daitai)
• Khmer: កងវរសេនាតូច (kong voreak sena toch)
• Korean: 대대 (ko) (daedae)
• Malay: batalion
• Maori: pātariana
• Norman: bataillon m
• Norwegian: bataljon (no) m
• Portuguese: batalhão (pt) m
• Romanian: batalion (ro) n
• Russian: батальо́н (ru) m (batalʹón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: батаљон m

  Roman: bataljon (sh) m

• Spanish: batallón (es) m
• Swedish: bataljon (sv) c
• Telugu: పటాలము (te) (paṭālamu)

any large body of troops

• Albanian: batalion (sq) m
• Finnish: pataljoona (fi)
• French: bataillon (fr) m
• German: Bataillon (de) n

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