GALLOWGLASSES Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

gallowglasses

noun

plural of gallowglass

as in gendarmes

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Noun

Another 170 gendarmes, or law enforcement officers, have also been dispatched to the region to support the firefighting effort.

— Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Enter Orsolya, who shows up at the door with some gendarmes and an official eviction notice and gives Ion twenty minutes to quit the premises.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026

Definition of gendarmes

Noun

The two girls were falsely listed as recruits for the university’s crew team, even though neither ever participated in the sport.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
Murry Taylor, who jumped for twenty-seven seasons, many of them with Dow, compared the recruits to wild horses.

— M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of recruits

Noun

The Seahawks, of course, are the reigning Super Bowl champions, and the rest of the league is on high alert for some of Seattle’s most dangerous weapons.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
At Shanksville, where hijackers of United Flight 93 crashed the jetliner after passengers fought back, the dead included two former college athletic champions – in rugby and judo – as well as an author who was three months pregnant.

— Mike Kelly, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of champions

Noun

The cost to book the arena in those days was a whopping $1,000 a night, though that was discounted to $688 for the American Legion veterans.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
The new microdramas platform from Hollywood veterans Jana Winograde, Susan Rovner and Lloyd Braun has launched with an initial slate of projects spanning the horror, comedy and animation genres.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of veterans

Noun

Peyr’s book was inspired by the real case of the disappeared of Mourmelon, in which a number of young men, most of them military conscripts, went missing over several years in the 1980s.

— Ed Meza, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
The country announced that new conscripts from the Schleswig Infantry will deploy to Greenland for an exercise this month.

— Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of conscripts

Noun

The Warriors brought back almost every major rotation player from last season’s team, with the only newcomers until this week being draftees Yaxel Lendeborg and Lajae Jones.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026
Last year’s Dolphins team blamed most of the early season struggles (2-7 start) on the draftees playing prominent roles in 2025.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of draftees

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