battalion

English

Etymology

From French bataillon.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈtælɪən/

Noun

battalion (plural battalions)

(military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
(US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
Any large body of troops.
(by extension) A great number of things.

Synonyms

(great number of things): heap, horde, load, mass, pile, swathe

Translations

army unit

Albanian: batalion (sq) m
Armenian: գումարտակ (hy) (gumartak)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 營 (zh), 营 (zh) (yíng), 大隊 (zh), 大队 (zh) (dàduì)
Crimean Tatar: batalyon
Czech: prapor (cs) m
Danish: bataljon c
Erzya: коцталкс (koctalks)
Estonian: pataljon
Finnish: pataljoona (fi)
French: bataillon (fr) m
German: Bataillon (de) n, Sanitätsbataillon n (medical)
Greek: τάγμα (el) n (tágma)
Hebrew: גדוד‎‎ m (gdud)
Hungarian: zászlóalj (hu)
Indonesian: batalyon (id), batalion (id)
Irish: cathlán

Japanese: 大隊 (ja) (だいたい, daitai)
Khmer: កងវរសេនាតូច (kong voreak sena toch)
Korean: 대대 (ko) (daedae)
Malay: batalion
Maori: pātariana
Norman: bataillon m
Norwegian: bataljon (no) m
Portuguese: batalhão (pt) m
Romanian: batalion (ro) n
Russian: батальо́н (ru) m (batalʹón)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: батаљон m

Roman: bataljon (sh) m
Spanish: batallón (es) m
Swedish: bataljon (sv) c

any large body of troops

Albanian: batalion (sq) m
Finnish: pataljoona (fi)
French: bataillon (fr) m
German: Bataillon (de) n

Greek: λεφούσι (el) n (lefoúsi), στίφος (el) n (stífos)
Norman: bataillon m
Portuguese: batalhão (pt) m
Spanish: batallón (es) m

great number of things

Greek: λεφούσι (el) n (lefoúsi), στίφος (el) n (stífos)

Verb

battalion (third-person singular simple present battalions, present participle battalioning, simple past and past participle battalioned)

To form into battalions.

Anagrams

antibloat

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