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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The branch of an army made up of units trained to fight on foot.
  2. n. Soldiers armed and trained to fight on foot: The general ordered his infantry to attack.
  3. n. A unit, such as a regiment, of such soldiers: Company B of the 7th Infantry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Soldiery ✓ serving on foot, as distinguished from cavalry; that part of a military establishment using small-arms, and equipped for marching and fighting on foot, constituting the oldest of the “arms” into which armies are conventionally divided: as, a company, regiment, or brigade of infantry. Abbreviated infinitive
  2. n. [As if directly ⟨ infant, n., 1, + -ry.] Infants in general; an assemblage of children.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
  2. n. uncountable The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops
  3. n. A regiment of infantry

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A body of children.
  2. n. (Mil.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French infanterie, from older Italian, possibly from Spanish infantería "foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry," from infante "foot soldier," originally "a youth", either way from Latin infans '(child) who doesn't speak (yet)' (from in- 'non-' + fari 'to speak') (Wiktionary)
  2. French infanterie, from Old French, from Old Italian infanteria, from infante, youth, foot soldier, from Latin īnfāns, īnfant-, infant; see infant. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “JOULWAN: When you look at what we call infantry, boots on the ground, Marine and Army units, they're not 2.4 million.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2007

  • “Yes, truck drivers, radio operators, cooks all serve in infantry units, but I'm quite sure personnel with other than an infantry or special forces MOS are not eligible, regardless of the circumstances.”

    ROY CARTER SPANN

  • “Personally, years in infantry made me really, really comfort with the AR plus it is very accurate.”

    Rifle Shooting's 10 Most Significant Developments of the Decade

  • “Women are barred from ground jobs in infantry, armor and artillery units and are technically confined to support roles.”

    2008 January 03 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

  • “George Patton called it "… the greatest battle implement ever devised," and it was our main infantry weapon in the last war we won.”

    Firearms Superlatives, Part II

  • “The infantry is undergoing the last throes of the destruction of its regimental system, having found itself squeezed into 34 conventional regular infantry battalions plus three regular battalions of the Parachute Regiment.”

    Tomorrow Is Always Too Late

  • “Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war," he wrote.”

    Boing Boing

  • “I think the major stumbling block has been that Jerry has talked about the PAVN Air Defense network, while we are more familiar with the world of PLAF and PAVN main infantry units.”

    Memorandum

  • “Armed with machine guns, they were to await there, first in deep dugouts while the bombardment went on, then in the midst of labyrinths of wire so thick that they could not get out and no one else could get in, and they were to delay the German advance and separate the German infantry from the German barrage, until overwhelmed by sheer force of numbers.”

    Lest We Forget.

  • “But the march of infantry is quick time, and you cannot accelerate the pace of the head of the column without doing an injury to the whole.”

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.

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Words with the same meaning

  1. footsoldiers
  1. foot
  1. infantrymen

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  1. cavalry

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  1. army unit

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  1. paratroops

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  1. cavalry
  2. battalion
  3. militia
  4. troop
  1. volunteer
  2. squadron
  3. horseman
  4. marine
  1. garrison
  2. scout
  3. fighter
  4. trooper
  1. squad
  2. navy
  3. police
  4. soldier
  1. patrol
  2. mercenary
  3. rebel
  4. rifleman
  1. aviation

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. paratroops
  2. battalion
  3. line
  4. rifle
  5. yager
  6. janizary
  7. equipment
  8. light infantry
  9. corporal
  10. foot
  11. foot company
  12. half-pike
  13. hoplite
  14. guidon
  15. footband
  16. foot-barracks
  17. foot-folk
  18. chasseur
  19. enfilade
  20. l
  21. lochus
  1. naik
  2. n
  3. r. m. l.
  4. bill
  5. blitzkrieg
  6. brigade
  7. nujeeb
  8. pitaile
  9. rifleman
  10. shako
  11. spontoon
  12. airmobile
  13. combat boot
  14. armored personnel carrier
  15. assault gun
  16. inf.
  17. army organization
  18. battle-hardened
  19. galloper gun
  20. globe
  21. cabasset
  1. captain-lieutenant
  2. espadon
  3. humette
  4. INF
  5. dough-boy
  6. infantry
  7. infantryman
  8. infantry fighting vehicle
  9. household troops
  10. Zouave
  11. grenadier
  12. assault weapon
  13. division
  14. flank company
  15. flying army
  16. foot guards
  17. general guides
  18. foot soldier
  19. battle group
  20. firefight
  21. heavy
  1. pike
  2. overrun
  3. arm
  4. battery
  5. phalanx
  6. crowfoot
  7. push
  8. rush
  9. legion
  10. troop
  11. APC
  12. armoured personnel carrier
  13. Eniwetok
  14. musket
  15. orb
  16. Scutum
  17. voltigeur
  18. bayonet
  19. Bob
  20. brisk
  21. cameronian
  1. captain
  2. cavalry
  3. centurion
  4. century
  5. cohort
  6. colonel
  7. color-guard
  8. company
  9. cornet
  10. disposition
  11. ensign
  12. foot-guard
  13. fusileer
  14. general
  15. horse
  16. light
  17. maniple
  18. multicycle
  19. pandoor
  20. platoon
  21. regiment
  1. miquelet
  2. target
  3. turco
  4. twenty

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  • oroboros The segment of the army "without speech" (infant).

    Jul 17, 2010

  • sionnach Whiskey for kids. Mar 16, 2010

  • bilby Toddler soldiers :-( Mar 16, 2010

  • chained_bear Captured at Yorktown, "2 regiments artillery, 2 of guards, 2 of light-infantry, 7 of foot ("regiments of foot" were infantry)," which were enumerated separately from those German-speaking troops that served with the British: see jaegers.

    The "7 of foot" that were enumerated included the "17th, 23d, 33d, 45th, 71st, 76th, and 80th." Oct 29, 2007

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