Synonyms:
battalion
Meaning: an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies
Usage examples
"A battalion is coming here to-night."
"I am three leagues ahead of the battalion."
"The Women's Battalion decided to remain loyal to the Government."
The Women's Battalion is in there--they will say we have fired on Russian women."
He never much approved of my wanderings, and thought I was safely anchored in the battalion.
The Preobrazhensk battalion, breaking rank, mingled with the French Guards and sat down at the tables prepared for them.
Following the battalion that marched along the dusty road came priests in their vestments--one little old man in a hood with attendants and singers.
Drakestail said to himself, 'One can't have too many friends.'... 'I will,' says he, 'but with your battalion to drag along, you will soon be tired.
Once, for the Countess, there was an awful interval, when the battalion of conscripts entered the town, and the men went by, one by one, to their lodgings.
The wife of a battalion commander, a queer woman, used to put on an officer's uniform and drive off into the mountains in the evening, alone, without a guide.