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Battalion vs Regiment - What's the difference?

battalion | regiment |

In military terms the difference between battalion and regiment

is that battalion is an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment while regiment is a unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions.

battalion

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form into battalions.
  • regiment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions.
  • * 1901 , (Rudyard Kipling), Kim , III:
  • It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment .
  • * 2005 , Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian , 28 April 2005:
  • As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.
  • * 1576 , (Abraham Fleming), translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles , XXXIII:
  • What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
  • Then loyall love had royall regiment , / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
  • * 1832 , , The Province of Jurisprudence Determined , VI:
  • And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment' which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical '''regiment (on the ''jus circa sacra ) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?
  • (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership.
  • (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet).
  • (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete, medicine) A regimen.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form soldiers into a regiment.
  • To systematize, or put in rigid order.
  • Anagrams

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