regiment

noun

Definition of regimentnext
as in corps
a military unit that is usually made of several large groups of soldiers (called battalions) infantry/cavalry regiments

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Recent Examples of regiment The curators know who was in the regiment — Company B, 2nd Regiment of the Maryland Eastern Shore Volunteers — based on military records. — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026 One was to Jamestown, Virginia, to help with an archeological dig from the American Revolution, even discovering a uniform button from a French regiment on the last day. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 The regiment's commander, Yevhen Karas, said his unit had also taken part hours earlier in the strike on the Wildberries warehouse, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Moscow, during one of Ukraine’s largest attacks on Russia to date. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026 The Buffalo Soldiers were the first peacetime, all-Black regiment in the Army. — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for regiment
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  1. corps
  2. troop
  3. wing
  4. company
  5. battalion
Noun
  • Morton graduated most of its linebacking corps from last season, but Candler jumped at the chance to help fill the void.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Aside from one play, Westlake contained a talented Lake Travis receiving corps last week.
    — Colby Gordon, Austin American Statesman, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of corps
Noun
  • Polish President Karol Nawrocki is focusing on negotiations with the United States over troop placement in his country, seeking the reassurance of an ally’s presence amid unprecedented instability and opposition from technocrats in Brussels.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Another aircraft carrier and thousands of additional troops are also on their way to the Middle East.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of troop
Noun
  • Its thrust-vectoring exhaust nozzle now extends noticeably beyond the rear edges of its wings.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Raman, 45, has aligned herself with groups that have emerged at City Hall more recently, including the left-wing Democratic Socialists of America and Streets For All, a transportation advocacy group.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of wing
Noun
  • By then Ono had signed on to the artificial intelligence company Axiom Math as its founding mathematician.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Unlike other blockbuster drugs, multiple companies introduced versions, which is both creating competition now and will likely lead to much lower prices in the 2030s when generics become available.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of company
Noun
  • By the end of their deployment, 25 Marines from the battalion were killed in action and more than 200 were wounded.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The city plans to use the funds to add a battalion chief, demolish and reconstruct Fire Stations 33 and 37, build a training center and an additional fire station, purchase another ladder truck and two more ambulances and hire 36 more firefighters.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of battalion

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