Synonyms:
infantry, foot
Meaning: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"
Usage examples
The infantry also were carefully drilled.
The masses of infantry are drawing together again.
You must always remember that Faye is in the infantry.
"The columns of infantry are getting up again," he said.
The Spaniards and Gauls occupied the centre of the line of infantry.
There are four companies here--three of infantry and one troop of cavalry.
Colonel von Gramm, of the 24th Posen Infantry, had suffered severely during this new development.
Varro placed his infantry in close and heavy order, so as to reduce their front to that of the Carthaginians.
They say that Stonewall Jackson never sleeps, and they make no mistake, when they call his infantry foot cavalry!"
The repellers were called light infantry; but when they carried on operations beyond the fort they became cavalry.