infantry
Meaning of infantry
noun
- soldiers marching or fighting on foot; foot soldiers collectively.
the infantry advanced at sunrise
the ships carried two regiments of infantry
infantry battalions
late 16th century: from French infanterie, from Italian infanteria, from infante ‘youth, infantryman’, from Latin infant- (see infant).
Information about infantry
- It is a name.
- The plural form of infantry is: infantries.
- Languages in which infantry is used:
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Hyphenation of infantry
in-fantry
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- infantry is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
infantry synonyms
Meaning foot:
Meaning a soldier belonging to an infantry regiment:
Meaning a British private soldier:
Meaning a low, short guttural sound made by an animal or a person:
Meaning a US soldier, especially an infantryman:
Meaning a boiled or deep-fried dumpling:
Meaning a liveried servant whose duties include admitting visitors and waiting at table:
Translation of infantry
- Spanish: infantería
- French: infanterie
- Italian: fanteria, infantaria
Words that rhyme with infantry
Bantry, Gantry, Infantry, Lantry, chantry, elephantry, errantry, gallantry, gantry, giantry, ingallantry, kantry, lieutenantry, merchantry, noninfantry, pageantry, pantry, peasantry, pedantry, pheasantry, pleasantry, sergeantry, serjeantry, servantry, sycophantry, tenantry, truantry, unpleasantry, vacantry, Centry, Coventry, Daventry, Gentry, adventry, agentry, ancientry, argentry, carpentry, centry, clientry, componentry, counterentry, coventry, entry, gentry, misentry, nonentry, outsentry, overentry, postentry
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