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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A highly mobile army unit using vehicular transport, such as light armor and helicopters.
  2. n. Troops trained to fight on horseback.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A class of soldiers who march and fight on horseback; that part of an army, or of any military force, which consists of troops that serve on horseback, as distinguished from infantry, or foot-soldiers. Their efficacy and general importance arise from their adaptation to rapid movements, thus enabling a commander to avail himself of decisive opportunities, as in the exposure of weak points in the enemy's lines, or the occurrence of disorder in his ranks. They are also employed for intercepting the enemy's supplies, furnishing detachments and escorts, procuring intelligence, protecting the center or wings of an army, or covering a retreat. The uses of cavalry, however, are necessarily limited by the nature of the ground. Modern cavalry consists of two grand classes, heavy and light (distinguished by weight of men, horses, and equipments), which are susceptible of subdivision according to the service required, as cuirassiers, dragoons, lancers, hussars, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. military The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
  2. n. military Branch of military transported by fast light vehicles, the mechanized cavalry.
  3. n. military An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mil.) That part of military force which serves on horseback.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a highly mobile army unit
  2. n. troops trained to fight on horseback

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French cavalerie, in turn from Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s. (Wiktionary)
  2. French cavalerie, from Italian cavalleria, from cavaliere, cavalier, from Old Italian; see cavalier. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. soldiery
  2. horse
  1. uhla
  2. yeomanry
  1. Life Guards
  2. Horse Guards
  1. dragoon guards
  2. dragoons
  1. hussars
  2. lancers

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. soldiery
  1. military personnel
  1. troops

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. infantry
  2. troop
  3. militia
  4. horseman
  1. regiment
  2. squadron
  3. garrison
  4. scout
  1. volunteer
  2. marine
  3. fighter
  4. soldier
  1. navy
  2. police
  3. patrol
  4. mercenary
  1. trooper
  2. squad
  3. rebel
  4. guard

reverse dictionary (126)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. hussar
  2. gendarmerie
  3. squadron
  4. dragoon
  5. horse artillery
  6. ritt-master
  7. line
  8. legion
  9. guidon
  10. phylarch
  11. saddler-sergeant
  12. cav
  13. chavellery
  14. roughrider
  15. troop
  16. yeomanry
  17. ironsides
  18. earl marshal of scotland
  19. infantry
  20. demilancer
  21. Cossack
  22. cuirassier
  23. foot
  24. heavy cavalry
  25. horse
  1. horse marine
  2. Horse Guards
  3. lancer
  4. calotte
  5. caltrop
  6. carbine
  7. cavalryman
  8. chasseur
  9. cheval-de-frise
  10. chivachie
  11. hipparch
  12. lasso-harness
  13. turma
  14. watering-call
  15. brigade
  16. gendarme
  17. musketoon
  18. patah
  19. picket line
  20. reiter
  21. remount
  22. risala
  23. saddler-corporal
  24. silladar
  25. sowar
  1. stable-call
  2. buff-coated
  3. caballada
  4. Colophon
  5. Mosby
  6. army organization
  7. fraise
  8. argolet
  9. cabasset
  10. caracole
  11. chevachie
  12. corporal
  13. ginete
  14. horse-soldier
  15. light-horse
  16. light-horseman
  17. Sitting Bull
  18. Chambersburg
  19. uhlan
  20. trooper
  21. household troops
  22. saber
  23. cav.
  24. charge
  25. chivalry
  1. cornet
  2. drum
  3. flying army
  4. Pulaski
  5. charger
  6. roman legion
  7. light
  8. Morgan
  9. lance
  10. Davis
  11. troop-horse
  12. custer's last stand
  13. Little Bighorn
  14. Battle of Little Bighorn
  15. battle of the little bighorn
  16. chevaux-de-frise
  17. mêlée
  18. orb
  19. raid
  20. sabretasche
  21. shabrack
  22. spahi
  23. square
  24. war horse
  25. watering call
  1. yeoman
  2. yeomanry cavalry
  3. Albanian
  4. arm
  5. battalion
  6. captain
  7. colonel
  8. company
  9. Croat
  10. demoralize
  11. disposition
  12. equites
  13. estradiot
  14. gray
  15. hack
  16. heavy
  17. Mameluke
  18. plunger
  19. regiment
  20. spahee
  21. sprawl
  22. strength
  23. duffadar
  24. tabor
  25. turnover
  1. yager

tagging (23)

Words tagged ‘cavalry’

  1. amusette
  2. bridoon
  3. caparison
  4. carabineer
  1. chasseurs a cheval
  2. cossacks
  3. dragoon
  4. gendarmerie
  1. heavy dragoon
  2. horse artillery
  3. horse riflemen
  4. hulans
  1. hussar
  2. kalmucks
  3. light dragoon
  4. light horse
  1. mamaluke
  2. menage
  3. pace
  4. ritt-master
  1. rough-rider
  2. sprawling charge
  3. ulans

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  • reesetee I've had that happen too, cathari. Thanks to a friend of mine, to this day I have to think twice before mentioning NYC's Chrysler Building. She always called it the Chevrolet Building. :-) Oct 30, 2007

  • cathari seanmeade: You know, I never had trouble with the difference when I was little, until my dad had told me so many times about his own tendency to mix them up that I started mixing them up as well. Confusion can be horribly contagious like that. Oct 30, 2007

  • reesetee Not to worry. I added a reference at yacht. Besides, how can you be confused? This is Wordie, where discussions can pop up darn near anywhere! :-) Oct 30, 2007

  • reesetee No matter. I just like the phrase "unfamiliar guttural spirant." :-) Oct 30, 2007

  • chained_bear Wait! Why's this on the cavalry page and not the jaeger or yacht page?
    *is confused* Oct 30, 2007

  • chained_bear Ooh, well... I like that about Dutch.

    Actually, though Dutch and German are closely related (as languages go--I don't mean that they're the same language, of course), "jacht" is a Dutch spelling/origin, and "jaeger" (I can't make umlauts on this computer very easily) is German.

    Hate to be a pooter parpy... Oct 30, 2007

  • sionnach Unfamiliar guttural spirant, eh? But then, what can you expect from a language which considers the letter sequence ijk to be legitimate? Rijksmuseum - a word which, quite frankly, triggers nauseum. Oct 30, 2007

  • reesetee Funny, sionnach--when I looked for the etymology of yacht, I found this in the OED Online: "Owing to the presence in the Dutch word of the unfamiliar guttural spirant denoted by g(h), the English spellings have been various and erratic; how far they represent varieties of pronunciation it is difficult to say." Then it lists these spellings: yeagh, yoath, yolke?, yaugh, yuaght, yought, y(e)aught, yaucht, jacht, yach, yacth, yat, yott, yatcht, yatch.

    Which really makes your head hurt if you read it too quickly. Oct 30, 2007

  • sionnach I think the jaegers would be on the jacht. Oct 30, 2007

  • chained_bear Cavalry units captured at Yorktown and Gloucester included "Simcoe's and Tarleton's legions" and the "Hereditary Prince's regiment of horse."

    Simcoe and Tarleton were stationed at Gloucester, I believe, which is directly across the York River from Yorktown.

    (See also jaegers for a comment about the German-speaking troops with the British at Yorktown and Gloucester.) Oct 29, 2007

  • seanmeade must remember difference between cavalry and Calvary ;-) Mar 26, 2007

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