MARTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Martial mean? 

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

1. Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)

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

• MARTIAL (adjective)
  The adjective MARTIAL has 3 senses:

1. (of persons) befitting a warrior

2. suggesting war or military life

3. of or relating to the armed forces

  Familiarity information: MARTIAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARTIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

• MARTIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of persons) befitting a warrior

Synonyms:

martial; soldierlike; soldierly; warriorlike

Context example:

a military bearing

Similar:

military (characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Suggesting war or military life

Synonyms:

martial; warlike

Similar:

military (characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to the armed forces

Context example:

martial law

Similar:

military (associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians)

 Context examples 

It was the age of martial women.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"What fun you'd have! I wish I could run off too," said Jo, forgetting her part of mentor in lively visions of martial life at the capital.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The meanest sloop that ever sailed out of France would have overmatched her, and then it would be on me, and not on this Devonport bungler, that a court-martial would be called.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If this matter is not to become public, we must give ourselves certain powers and resolve ourselves into a small private court-martial.

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

Sketches of boxers, of ballet-girls, and of racehorses alternated with a sensuous Fragonard, a martial Girardet, and a dreamy Turner.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In those scattered circles of dim radiance might be seen the whole busy panorama of life in a wealthy and martial city.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The prince smiled at the martial ardor which shone upon every face around him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So used were the good burghers of Bordeaux to martial display and knightly sport, that an ordinary joust or tournament was an everyday matter with them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As far as eye could see from among the rocky gorges and the bristles of the pine woods there came the quick twinkle and glitter of steel, while the wind brought with it sudden distant bursts of martial music from the great host which rolled by every road and by-path towards the narrow pass of Roncesvalles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still stronger, however, had been the influence of the great French war; for, however well matched the nations might be in martial exercises, there could be no question but that our neighbors were infinitely superior to us in the arts of peace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)