battalion

EnglishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From French bataillon.

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈtælɪən/

NounEdit

battalion (plural battalions)

(military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
(US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
Any large body of troops.
(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
Cantonese: 連
Crimean Tatar: batalyon
Czech: prapor (cs) m
Estonian: pataljon
French: bataillon (fr) m
German: Bataillon (de) n
Greek: τάγμα (el) n (tágma)
Hungarian: zászlóalj (hu)
Irish: cathlán
Jèrriais: bataillon m

Khmer: កងវរសេនាតូច (kong voreak sena toch)
Korean: 대대 (ko) (daedae)
Mandarin: 連 (zh)
Portuguese: batalhão (pt) m
Russian: батальон (ru) m (batal'on) (read: batal'jón)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: батаљон m

Roman: bataljon 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)
Jèrriais: bataillon m
Portuguese: batalhão (pt) 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)

To form into battalions.

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