army
[zone: 1, ipm: 786.76]
Definitions
- the part of a country's armed forces that fights on land
Examples
- The prince had an army of six thousand foot in good condition.
- An invading Dutch army convinced James and his Tory supporters that their cause was lost.
- France was finally defeated by a coalition of European armies in 1815.
- A Roman army , forty thousand strong, was hastily raised, and crossed the Tiber, marching towards Veii, where they expected to meet the advancing enemy.
- In both battles the armies of Britain contributed to victory, but in both battles, as was right and proper, the main work was done by the French, and with them lies the chief glory.
Collocations
- French [score: 10.33, freq: 1033] (the French army)
- corps [score: 10.31, freq: 66] (army corps)
- Russian [score: 9.73, freq: 380] (the Russian army)
- command [score: 9.61, freq: 219] (commanded the army)
- allied [score: 9.54, freq: 253] (the allied army)
- defeat [score: 9.4, freq: 192] (defeated army)
- enemy [score: 9.38, freq: 39] (enemy's army)
- assemble [score: 9.34, freq: 166] (assembled an army)
- Austrian [score: 9.28, freq: 239] (the Austrian army)
- join [score: 9.27, freq: 189] (join the army)
- Prussian [score: 9.19, freq: 220] (the Prussian army)
- standing [score: 9.12, freq: 175] (a standing army)
- Washington [score: 9.08, freq: 13] (Washington's army)
- Wellington [score: 8.9, freq: 12] (the Duke of Wellington's army)
- Roman [score: 8.86, freq: 279] (the Roman army)
- Blücher [score: 8.85, freq: 11] (Blücher's army)
- advance [score: 8.79, freq: 92] (army advanced)
- Napoleon [score: 8.76, freq: 43] (Napoleon's army)
- German [score: 8.72, freq: 266] (the German army)
- Turkish [score: 8.58, freq: 142] (the Turkish army)
- march [score: 8.56, freq: 86] (army marched)
- Schwarzenberg [score: 8.48, freq: 8] (Schwarzenberg's army)
- Ney [score: 8.38, freq: 8] (Ney's army)
- British [score: 8.35, freq: 279] (the British army)
- invade [score: 8.35, freq: 87] (army invaded)
- Burgoyne [score: 8.3, freq: 7] (Burgoyne's army)
- English [score: 8.17, freq: 158] (the English army)
- recruit [score: 8.12, freq: 62] (armies were recruited)
- cross [score: 8.03, freq: 49] (army crossed)
- chest [score: 8.01, freq: 7] (the army chest)
- professionalism [score: 8, freq: 6] (specified amount of army professionalism)
- Spanish [score: 7.97, freq: 99] (the Spanish army)
- destroy [score: 7.94, freq: 75] (army was destroyed)
- regular [score: 7.89, freq: 85] (the regular army)
- hostile [score: 7.73, freq: 74] (hostile armies)
- officer [score: 7.62, freq: 34] (army officers)
- reinforce [score: 7.61, freq: 44] (reinforce the armies)
- commander [score: 7.59, freq: 11] (the army commander)
- retreat [score: 7.54, freq: 41] (the retreating army)
- amount [score: 7.49, freq: 33] (army amounted)
- imperial [score: 7.48, freq: 87] (the imperial army)
- Persian [score: 7.37, freq: 60] (the Persian army)
- unit [score: 7.37, freq: 7] (army units)
- fight [score: 7.31, freq: 31] (army fought)
- occupy [score: 7.19, freq: 32] (army occupied)
- leader [score: 7.11, freq: 16] (by the colonial army leader)
Thesaurus
- troop [score: 0.446, freq: 13039]
- force [score: 0.429, freq: 15431]
- man [score: 0.299, freq: 43782]
- people [score: 0.296, freq: 29977]
- enemy [score: 0.293, freq: 14084]
- nation [score: 0.288, freq: 15132]
- government [score: 0.284, freq: 28006]
- soldier [score: 0.283, freq: 8297]
- party [score: 0.281, freq: 11219]
- power [score: 0.279, freq: 28019]
- fleet [score: 0.274, freq: 4995]
- empire [score: 0.273, freq: 21781]
- body [score: 0.271, freq: 8955]
- state [score: 0.268, freq: 21685]
- general [score: 0.261, freq: 7504]
- prince [score: 0.26, freq: 12311]
- country [score: 0.258, freq: 27816]
- city [score: 0.255, freq: 15013]
- king [score: 0.254, freq: 26488]
- officer [score: 0.25, freq: 8934]