infantries

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of infantry.
  infantry

  noun

  soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapons.

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infantries

Industrial culture hardly represented the subcontinent, where infantries of workmen, captured in archival film footage, lugged baskets of construction material for a building designed to look machined.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2019

The Romans," says Napoleon in his Memoirs, "had two infantries; the first, lightly armed, was provided with a missile weapon; the second, heavily armed, bore a short sword.

From Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by Henry Wager Halleck

All other things being equal, both infantries suffer the same losses in the artillery duel.

From Battle Studies by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq

The two infantries were contending; gray Russian lines in the bottom land and already advancing up the slopes.

From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort

The soldiers, who deserve no little credit for their work, are members of the Twenty-eighth and the Tenth infantries.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert

Related Words

• infantrymen