Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small group of people organized in a common endeavor or activity.
- n. The smallest tactical unit of military personnel.
- n. A small unit of police officers.
- n. Sports An athletic team.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Milit., any small number of men assembled, as for drill, inspection, or duty.
- n. Any small party or group of persons: as, a squad of navvies; a set of people in general: usually somewhat contemptuous.
- To draw up in a squad.
- n. Soft, slimy mud.
- n. In mining, loose ore of tin mixed with earth.
Wiktionary
- n. A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- n. A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- n. cricket, soccer, rugby A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- n. UK, dialect sloppy mud
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil.) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.
- n. Hence, any small party.
- n. Prov. Eng. Sloppy mud.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
- n. a smallest army unit
- n. a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
Etymologies
- French escouade (Wiktionary)
- Obsolete French esquade, from Old French escadre, from Old Spanish escuadra and Old Italian squadra, both from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, square; see square. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“= _A sentry squad_ is a squad posted in observation at an indicated point.”
“Whereas the title squad's unselfish play some times led to passing to a fault, the current crew lean toward faulty passing.”
“Not everyone in the squad is the same age, he says, perhaps thinking of Kevin Davies, who has just received his first England call-up at the age of 33.”
The Guardian: Ashley Young still aiming to win his spurs with England
“I'm putting a team into an Edinburgh Summer league and the squad is a bit on the thin side.”
“After a particularly harrowing battle where the squad is able to overcome a Nazi ambush Zab is asked about what happened and can barely remember the event.”
“Maybe it did, but this squad is a legitimate contender in the East.”
“The first few chapters, which describe a stakeout in which Gunvald Larsson of the homicide squad is reluctantly involved, are brilliant.”
“The driving force for the current squad is Shanavia Dowdell, two-time WAC player of the year and this year's tournament MVP.”
“The Chick-fil-A Bowl, to be played Dec. 31 at 7: 30 p.m. in Atlanta, pits an ACC team against a squad from the Southeastern Conference.”
The Washington Post: Chick-fil-A Bowl representative to scout Terps vs. Wake Forest
“Based on the data in the two previous categories, how many minutes/matches/days/weeks would it take for United to score against RSL at Rio Tinto Stadium, where the home squad is 11-0-4 and has allowed seven goals?”
The Washington Post: MLS playoff scenarios, statistics, records
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘squad’.
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
As originally suggested on sweet tooth fairy domino:
Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 119 more...
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SEDE - armies and units
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Squiddy
Squiddishiousness
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Absolutely Nothing
Them's fightin' words.
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formations
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Congregation
Clusters, gatherings, and groups of humans.
alliance, circle, council, federation, fraternity, league, assembly, company, group, flock, crowd, mob and 99 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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attribute, sticking, distinct, perseverance, trend, clarify, avoidant, ambivalent, disoriented, cling, prompting, appositive and 94 more...
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Military Matters
words of mass (or minor) destruction
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Squ-
All those fun words that begin with squ-. Be careful; this list is hard to read without some serious eye-crossage.
squid, squab, square, squeegee, squirt, squire, squib, squelch, squabble, squad, squally, squalled and 228 more...
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Loxodont's list
circumambulate, atelectasis, paramount, therefore, apotropaic, facture, identity, dome, lecture, cannibal, catatonia, rite and 119 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Q-Tips
mmm... tasty
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These Words Crack Me Up
caucus, gerrymandering, pigeonhole, squad, madrigal, poo, beaker, egress, booger, pander, ugly, bat and 1 more...
Tweets
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john “Many of the men, and it’s still almost all men, remember the days when they stood several deep around the specialists, nudging, pushing, staying put for several straight hours, shouting ‘Squad!’ for pages to hustle handwritten notes to clerks on the wings, jockeying at the banks of phones now hanging from hooks like relics.�?
The New York Times, Financial Foot Soldiers, Feeling the Weight of the World , by Dan Barry, November 2, 2008 Nov 3, 2008
reesetee Precisely. Otherwise known as simple-past or past-tense. :-) Mar 14, 2008
yarb i.e. the preterite of the verb "to squid"?
Best definition ever. Mar 14, 2008
reesetee (verb) To have squidded. Mar 14, 2008