INFANTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infantry mean? 

• INFANTRY (noun)
  The noun INFANTRY has 1 sense:

1. an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

  Familiarity information: INFANTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFANTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

foot; infantry

Context example:

there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot

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

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

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 "infantry"):

paratroops (infantry trained and equipped to parachute)

 Context examples 

While immune cells called neutrophils are known to act as infantry in the body’s war on germs, a National Institutes of Health-funded study suggests they can act as medics as well.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)

Of the six score, fully half had seen service before, while a fair sprinkling were men who had followed the wars all their lives, and had a hand in those battles which had made the whole world ring with the fame and the wonder of the island infantry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fairfax of the —regiment of infantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in action abroad—of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards—and this girl.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In the Argonne Forest I took two machine-gun detachments so far forward that there was a half mile gap on either side of us where the infantry couldn't advance.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

We stayed there two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns, and when the infantry came up at last they found the insignia of three German divisions among the piles of dead.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)