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noun (plural armies)

an organized military force equipped for fighting on land:

(一般に)軍隊, 兵力; (軍隊的な)団体, 組織

e.g. the two armies were in position.

(the army or the Army) the branch of a nation's armed services that conducts military operations on land:

(国軍の一部門としての)陸軍(→ navy, air force)

e.g. an enlisted man in the army

e.g. as modifier : army officers.

(an army of or armies of) a large number of people or things, typically formed or organized for a particular purpose:

〖集合的に; ｟英｠ では単複両扱い〗(人･動物などの)群れ, 一団, 一群, ; 〖an ～ of A〗 Aの大群 (!Aは通例C名詞複数形)

e.g. an army of photographers

e.g. armies of cockroaches.

informal used as an expression of disbelief in someone's ability to carry out a threat:

e.g. “One word to him and I'll nail you.” “You and whose army?”.

see stomach.

late Middle English: from Old French armee, from armata, feminine past participle of Latin armare ‘to arm’.