Definitions for military

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military mil·i·tar·y

Spelling: [mil-i-ter-ee]

IPA: /ˈmɪl ɪˌtɛr i/

Military is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in military (aiilmrty).

Definitions for military

noun

1. the military. the military establishment of a nation; the armed forces. military personnel, especially commissioned officers, taken collectively:

adjective

1. of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy:
2. of, for, or pertaining to war:
3. of or relating to soldiers.
4. befitting, characteristic of, or noting a soldier:
5. following the life of a soldier:
6. performed by soldiers:

Origin of military

1575-85; Latin mīlitāri(s), equivalent to mīlit- (stem of mīles) soldier + -āris -ary

Examples for military

In line with this, a simulation of the military is a favorite device.

The American military may have launched hundreds of airstrikes on Iraq and Syria.

Are their sons drafted off, as the rest of French youth, into military service?

The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.

Is it not abominable, the way these schools of St. Cyr and the Paris military are run?

Breaking the will of ISIS, the military argues, is not a statistic.

Where the U.S. once depended on its own forces to determine who was military material, this time the Iraqis will decide.

The U.S. military has said it is too early to make any conclusions, other than the war is on course.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

These are the only conditions which military honour permits me to accept.