REGIMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regiment mean? 

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

1. army unit smaller than a division

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

• REGIMENT (verb)
  The verb REGIMENT has 3 senses:

1. subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization

2. form (military personnel) into a regiment

3. assign to a regiment

  Familiarity information: REGIMENT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGIMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Army unit smaller than a division

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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

Meronyms (members of "regiment"):

battalion (an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies)

Derivation:

regiment (assign to a regiment)

regiment (form (military personnel) into a regiment)

regimental (belonging to or concerning a regiment)

• REGIMENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they regiment    ... he / she / it regiments   
Past simple: regimented   
Past participle: regimented   
-ing form: regimenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

regiment one's children

Hypernyms (to "regiment" is one way to...):

command; control (exercise authoritative control or power over)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

regimentation (the imposition of order or discipline)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form (military personnel) into a regiment

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "regiment" is one way to...):

form; organise; organize (create (as an entity))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

regiment (army unit smaller than a division)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Assign to a regiment

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

regiment soldiers

Hypernyms (to "regiment" is one way to...):

assign; delegate; depute; designate (give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

regiment (army unit smaller than a division)

 Context examples 

“Why, George,” cried my uncle, “I thought you were with your regiment.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Elizabeth had rejoiced over Wickham's departure she found little other cause for satisfaction in the loss of the regiment.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He went away to his regiment two days ago, and I trust I shall never be plagued with him again.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

All they wanted was a good watch and food; for, short of a complete surprise, they might have held the place against a regiment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But they were regarded in the regiment as the very model of a middle-aged couple.

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

The —th regiment are stationed there since the riots; and the officers are the most agreeable men in the world: they put all our young knife-grinders and scissor merchants to shame.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thus N, shall signify a plot; B, a regiment of horse; L, a fleet at sea; or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But can we wonder that, with such a husband to provoke inconstancy, and without a friend to advise or restrain her (for my father lived only a few months after their marriage, and I was with my regiment in the East Indies) she should fall?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

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)

The whole house of Omer and Joram turned out to bid us good-bye; and there were so many seafaring volunteers in attendance on Steerforth, when our portmanteaux went to the coach, that if we had had the baggage of a regiment with us, we should hardly have wanted porters to carry it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)