battalion

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EtymologyEdit

From French bataillon.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈtælɪən/

NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

army unit

• Albanian: batalion (sq) m
• Chinese:

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

• Crimean Tatar: batalyon
• Czech: prapor (cs) m
• Erzya: коцталкс ‎(koctalks)
• Estonian: pataljon
• French: bataillon (fr) m
• German: Bataillon (de) n
• Greek: τάγμα (el) n ‎(tágma)
• Hebrew: גדוד m ‎(gdud)
• Hungarian: zászlóalj (hu)
• Indonesian: batalyon (id), batalion (id)
• Irish: cathlán

• Japanese: 大隊 (ja) ‎(だいたい, daitai)
• Khmer: កងវរសេនាតូច ‎(kong voreak sena toch)
• Korean: 대대 (ko) ‎(daedae)
• Malay: batalion
• Norman: bataillon 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

any large body of troops

• Albanian: batalion (sq) m
• 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)

VerbEdit

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

1. To form into battalions.