Regiment

Quick meaning: Regiment is a noun meaning (countable, military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units.

Meaning

(countable, military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units.

More Meanings

1. (now rare, archaic) Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority.
2. (countable, obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.
3. (countable, obsolete, medicine) A regimen.
4. (transitive) To form soldiers into a regiment.
5. (transitive) To systematize, or put in rigid order.
6. (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership.
7. (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet).

Example Sentences

What place is there in all the world, not ſubiect to the regiment and power of this citie?

An auncient booke[…] That of this lands firſt conqueſt did deuize, And old diuiſion into Regiments, […]

Nature that fram’d vs of foure Elements, Warring within our breaſts for regiment, Doth teach vs all to haue aſpyring minds:

Then loyall loue had royall regiment, And each vnto his luſt did make a lawe, From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.

Word Forms

• regiments
• regimenting
• regimented

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