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Battalion   /bətˈæljən/   Listen
Battalion

noun
1.
An army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies.
2.
A large indefinite number.  Synonyms: large number, multitude, pack, plurality.  "A multitude of TV antennas" , "A plurality of religions"






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"Battalion" Quotes from Famous Books



... hasty maneuvers were being carried out the fine-looking young cadet major of the battalion lifted his ...
— The High School Captain of the Team - Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard • H. Irving Hancock

... "Sauve qui peut!" resounded on all sides. In vain Ney, the bravest of the brave; in vain Soult, Bertrand, Gourgaud, and Labedoyere, burst from the broken disorganized mass, and called on them to stand fast. A battalion of the Old Guard, with Cambronne at their head, alone obeyed the summons: forming into square, they stood between the pursuers and their prey, offering themselves a sacrifice to the tarnished honor of their arms: to the order to surrender, ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education

... mind to tell the truth. At the first whistle of the bullets, the battalion suddenly came to ...
— International Short Stories: French • Various

... always ordered his wife about as if she were a battalion of infantry, and despite her misery, the training of years forced her to spring mechanically to obey; but suddenly she turned to him with a ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane

... 1798, four hundred of the Downshire Regiment, with their Battalion guns, Captain Pole, with the Ballyfin Troop of Yeomen Cavalry, and Captain Gore, with the Maryborough, (both Troops under the immediate command of Capt. Pole) proceeded towards the Collieries of Castlecomber and Donane, ...
— An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798. • John Jones


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