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English

Etymology

From Middle French regement, régiment, and its source, Late Latin regimentum (“direction for government; course of medical treatment”), from Latin reg? (“rule”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???d??m?nt/

Noun

regiment (plural regiments)

1. (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions. [from 16th c.]
   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, III:

     It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment.

   • 2005, Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian, 28 April 2005:

     As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.

2. (now rare, archaic) Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority. [from 14th c.]
   • 1576, Abraham Fleming, translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles, XXXIII:

     What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     Then loyall love had royall regiment, / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.

   • 1832, John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, VI:

     And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical regiment (on the jus circa sacra) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?

3. (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th-17th c.]
4. (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th-17th c.]
5. (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. [14th-17th c.]

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

6. (obsolete, medicine) A regimen. [15th-19th c.]

Translations

Verb

regiment (third-person singular simple present regiments, present participle regimenting, simple past and past participle regimented)

1. (transitive) To form soldiers into a regiment.
   • J. W. Powell

     The people are organized or regimented into bodies, and special functions are relegated to the several units.

2. (transitive) To systematize, or put in rigid order.

Anagrams

• metering

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin regimentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r?.?i?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r?.?i?men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.d??i?ment/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

regiment m (plural regiments)

1. regiment

Derived terms

• regimental
• regimentar

Further reading

• “regiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “regiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “regiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “regiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch regiment. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?.?i?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: re?gi?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

regiment n (plural regimenten, diminutive regimentje n)

1. regiment (division of an army)
2. regimen, regime (particular system of enforcing discipline)
3. (obsolete) rulership, governance, rule
   • 1628, Philips Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", (modern, redacted version), couplet 2.

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: resimen (“division of an army”)

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Regiment (“regiment”), from Medieval Latin regimentum, from Latin regimen (“rule, direction”), from reg? (“I rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??im?nt]
• Hyphenation: re?gi?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

regiment (plural regimentek)

1. (archaic) regiment

   Synonym: ezred

Declension

Further reading

• regiment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin regimentum

Noun

regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment or regimenter, definite plural regimenta or regimentene)

1. (military) a regiment

References

• “regiment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin regimentum

Noun

regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment, definite plural regimenta)

1. (military) a regiment

References

• “regiment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French régiment.

Noun

regiment n (plural regimente)

1. regiment

Declension

Vilamovian

Noun

regiment n

1. (military) regiment

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kroo?, IPA^(key): /k?u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: crewe, Crewe, cru

Etymology 1

From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. A group of people together
   1. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
   2. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.

   3. A group of people working together on a task.

   4. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.

   5. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.

   6. (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
      • 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body

        He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,

        And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;

        They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,

        But his soul is marching on.
   7. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
   8. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
   9. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
2. A person in a crew
   1. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.

   2. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.

   3. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

3. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
   • 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record

     The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.

Synonyms

• (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
• (group engaged in a task): team, gang
• (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
• (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
• (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
• (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
• (member of a crew): crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
• (non-officer ship worker): seaman

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)

1. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew

2. To be a member of a work or production crew

3. To supply workers or sailors for a crew
4. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor

5. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew

Derived terms

• crewer
• uncrewed
• crew up

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

crew

1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).

   It was still dark when the cock crew.

Etymology 3

Probably of Brythonic origin.

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

Derived terms

• crewyard

Etymology 4

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. The Manx shearwater.

Gallery

See also

• Appendix:Dictionary notes/crew
• Crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

crew m (plural crews)

1. crew