Regiment vs Infantry - What's the difference?
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(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:
* 2005 , Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian , 28 April 2005:
* 1576 , (Abraham Fleming), translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles , XXXIII:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
* 1832 , , The Province of Jurisprudence Determined , VI:
(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.
(obsolete, medicine) A regimen.
Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
(uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops
A regiment of infantry
As nouns the difference between regiment and infantry
is that 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 while infantry is soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).As a verb regiment
is to form soldiers into a regiment.regiment
English
(wikipedia regiment)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- 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.
- What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
- Then loyall love had royall regiment , / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
- 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?
- (Spenser)
