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army

ar·my [ rmee ] (plural ar·mies)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. branch of armed forces: the branch of a country's armed forces trained to fight on land

2. large armed group: a trained or armed fighting force

3. large organized group: a large group of people, especially one that has been organized to do a specific thing
an army of volunteers cleared the wasteland

4. large group of things: a very large number of similar things

[14th century. Via French armée< medieval Latin armata< past participle of Latin armare (see arm2)]
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