army

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

   An army never can be commanded or controlled by civilians.

2. 2
   noun

   The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.

   The army opposed the legislature's involvement.

3. 3
   noun

   A large group of people working toward the same purpose.

   It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud.

4. 4
   noun

   A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.

   Our house is being attacked by an army of ants.

5. 5
   noun

   Any multitude.

   There was an army of construction cranes working on building the skyscraper.

6. 6
   noun

   The military as a whole.

   The People's Liberation Army Navy of China.

7. 7
   name

   A sports team representing the US Military Academy at West Point.

   Army has several returning starters this year.

8. 8
   noun

   The fandom of the K-pop boy band BTS.

   ARMY are clever, too: they urged fans not to buy J-Hope's mixtape Hope World on its release date, having worked out that delaying by a day would result in a higher ranking in the Billboard charts.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder. Latin arma Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin armō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin armātus Anglo-Norman armeebor. Middle English armee English army From (1386) Middle English armee, borrowed from Old French armee (cf. modern French armée), from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), a noun taken from the past participle of…