Word Meanings - SQUADRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men. (more info) 1. Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. Those half-rounding

Additional info about word: SQUADRON

A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men. (more info) 1. Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. Those half-rounding quards Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SQUADRON)

• Corps
• Body
• regiment
• band
• squadron
• troop
• company

Related words: (words related to SQUADRON)

• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• TROOPBIRD
  Any troupial.
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• REGIMENTALLY
  In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.
• TROOPER
  A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
• REGIMENT
  A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten. Note: In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment, which is divided into brigades. Regiment of
• TROOPIAL
  See TROUPIAL
• SQUADRONED
  Formed into squadrons, or squares. Milton.
• SQUADRON
  A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men. (more info) 1. Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. Those half-rounding
• TROOPFOWL
  The American scaup duck.
• TROOP
  Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery;
• CORPSE
  corps, L. corpus; akin to AS. hrif womb. See Midriff, and cf. Corse, 1. A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuosly. Note: Formerly written corps. See Corps, n., 2. The dead body of a human being; -- used also
• CORPS
  The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed. The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps. Bacon. Army corps, or Corps d'armée (k, a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized
• REGIMENTAL
  Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing. Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.
• TROOPMEAL
  By troops; in crowds. So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts. Chapman.
• COMPANY
  1. To associate. Men which have companied with us all the time. Acts i. 21. 2. To be a gay companion. Spenser. 3. To have sexual commerce. Bp. Hall.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• DISCOMPANY
  To free from company; to dissociate. It she be alone now, and discompanied. B. Jonson.
• WARDCORPS
  Guardian; one set to watch over another. "Though thou preyedest Argus . . . to be my wardcorps." Chaucer.
• ENGINEER CORPS; CORPS OF ENGINEERS
  In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction
• INCORPSE
  To incorporate. Shak.
• ACCOMPANY
  1. To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are
• MOSSTROOPER
  One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.