different between army vs armed

English

Etymology

From (1386) Middle English armee, borrowed from Old French armee (cf. modern French armée), from Medieval Latin arm?ta (“armed force”), a noun taken from the past participle of Latin arm?re (“to arm”), itself related to arma (“tools, arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to join, fit together”).Doublet of armada. Displaced native Middle English heere, here, from Old English here.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ä'm?, IPA^(key): /???.mi?/
• (General American) enPR: är'm?, IPA^(key): /???.mi/
• Rhymes: -??(?)mi

Noun

army (plural armies)

1. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
   1. Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.

   2. (often capitalized) Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).

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

3. (figuratively) A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
4. (figuratively) A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.

5. (figuratively) Any multitude.

Synonyms

• host
• here
• ferd

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• navy
• Air Force
• Marines

Anagrams

• Mary, Mayr, Myra, Yarm, mary, yarm

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??md/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??md/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /????m?d/

Etymology 1

arm (“to equip with a weapon”) +? -ed.

Adjective

armed (comparative more armed, superlative most armed)

1. (sometimes in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.

2. (of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
3. (obsolete) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

     a distemper eminently armed from heaven

   • 1821, Sir William Herschel, Catalogue of Double Stars

     The naked eye then will immediately direct us, by means of the two stars just mentioned, towards the place where, in the finder, the armed eye will perceive the double star in question about ¾ degree from the 44th Lyncis.

4. (botany) Having prickles or thorns.

Derived terms

• armed conflict
• armed forces
• armed response
• armed robbery
• armed to the teeth
• unarmed

Translations

Verb

armed

1. simple past tense and past participle of arm

Etymology 2

arm (“the upper limb of the body”) +? -ed.

Adjective

armed (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
2. (of a creature) Possessing arms of a specified number or type.

   the four-armed creature.

   the strong-armed man.

   • 1634, attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen

     His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.

3. (heraldry, of animals) Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.

Derived terms

• one-armed
• one-armed bandit
• two-armed

Anagrams

• -derma, Mader, ad rem, dearm, derma, derma-, dream, m'dear, medar, ramed, redam

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin arm?tus.

Adjective

armed m (feminine singular armeda, masculine plural armeds, feminine plural armedes)

1. armed