different between cavalry vs dragoon

English

Alternative forms

• cavalery (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French cavalerie, in turn from Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s. Doublet of chivalry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæv?l?i/

Noun

cavalry (countable and uncountable, plural cavalries)

1. (military, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
2. (military, countable) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
3. (military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.

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References

• Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. ?ISBN, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Calvary, calvary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dragon. Doublet of Draco and dragon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????u?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

dragoon (plural dragoons)

1. (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
   • 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience

     If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
     Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
     Take all the remarkable people in history,
     Rattle them off to a popular tune!

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

2. A carrier of a dragon musket.
3. A variety of pigeon.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarke to this entry?)

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Further reading

• dragoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

dragoon (third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned)

1. (transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.

   Synonym: compel

2. (transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.

Related terms

• dragooner

Translations

Anagrams

• gadroon