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military
English
Alternative forms
- milertary
Etymology
From Old French militaire, from Latin m?lit?ris, from m?les (“soldier”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?l.?.t?i/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?l.?.t??.i/
Adjective
military (comparative more military, superlative most military)
- Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
- (Canada, US) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
- Relating to war.
- Relating to armies or ground forces.
Translations
Noun
military (plural military or militaries)
- Armed forces.
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
- militia
See also
- martial
- abbreviation: mil.
- army/Army
- navy
- air force/Air Force
- marines/Marines
- Merchant Marine
- US National Guard
- Coast Guard
Anagrams
- limitary
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pourpoint
English
Etymology
French pourpoint
Noun
pourpoint (plural pourpoints)
- (historical) A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.
- 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
- The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
- 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
- (historical) A doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu?.pw??/
Noun
pourpoint m (plural pourpoints)
- (historical) doublet
Derived terms
- à brûle-pourpoint
Further reading
- “pourpoint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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