MILITARY SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military service mean? 

• MILITARY SERVICE (noun)
  The noun MILITARY SERVICE has 2 senses:

1. a force that is a branch of the armed forces

2. land tenure by service in the lord's army

  Familiarity information: MILITARY SERVICE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A force that is a branch of the armed forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

armed service; military service; service

Hypernyms ("military service" is a kind of...):

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

Meronyms (members of "military service"):

force; military force; military group; military unit (a unit that is part of some military service)

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 "military service"):

army; ground forces; regular army (a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state)

naval forces; navy (an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare)

coastguard (a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters)

Marines (members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea)

air force; airforce (the airborne branch of a country's armed forces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Land tenure by service in the lord's army

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("military service" is a kind of...):

service ((law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him)

 Context examples 

The counsel pleased the king, and he sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to offer him military service when he awoke.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)