CAVALRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cavalry mean? 

• CAVALRY (noun)
  The noun CAVALRY has 2 senses:

1. troops trained to fight on horseback

2. a highly mobile army unit

  Familiarity information: CAVALRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAVALRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Troops trained to fight on horseback

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

cavalry; horse; horse cavalry

Context example:

500 horse led the attack

Hypernyms ("cavalry" is a kind of...):

military personnel; soldiery; troops (soldiers collectively)

Meronyms (members of "cavalry"):

cavalryman; trooper (a soldier in a motorized army unit)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A highly mobile army unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("cavalry" is a kind of...):

army unit (a military unit that is part of an army)

Meronyms (members of "cavalry"):

troop (a cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company)

cavalryman; trooper (a soldier mounted on horseback)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cavalry"):

squadron (a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms)

camel cavalry; zamboorak; zamburak; zamburek; zumbooruck; zumbooruk (a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies)

horse cavalry (an army unit mounted on horseback)

mechanized cavalry (an armored unit of a modern army equipped with motor vehicles)

 Context examples 

Nor did it take long for every stronghold to pour forth its cavalry, and every hamlet its footmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had not the cavalry stride, yet he wore his hat on one side, as is shown by the lighter skin of that side of his brow.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars is on the way to help you, which is the equivalent to having the cavalry arriving on horseback with bugles blaring.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Clambering up among the rocks, the companions saw a long rolling cloud of dust along the whole eastern sky-line, with the glint of spears and the flutter of pennons, which announced the approach of a large body of cavalry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Twenty men-at-arms, too, well mounted and equipped, formed the cavalry of the party, while young Peter Terlake of Fareham, and Walter Ford of Botley, the martial sons of martial sires, came at their own cost to wait upon Sir Nigel and to share with Alleyne Edricson the duties of his squireship.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two hundred heavily-armed cavalry rode behind the Audley standard, while close at their heels came the Duke of Lancaster with a glittering train, heralds tabarded with the royal arms riding three deep upon cream-colored chargers in front of him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)