How do you use the word "army" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "army": The town was defended by a large army. Our army broke through the enemy defenses.

Army Meaning

/ˈɑː.mi/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

nounA large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations., Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.

Sentence Examples

The town was defended by a large army.

Our army broke through the enemy defenses.

He left the army and returned to civilian life.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The general commanded a large and well-trained ____ that marched across the border at daybreak.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He decided to join the ____ because he wanted to serve his country.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder. Latin arma Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin armō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin armātus Anglo-Norman armeebor. Middle English armee English army From (1386) Middle English armee, borrowed from Old French armee (cf. modern French armée), from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), a noun taken from the past participle of Latin armāre (“to arm”), itself related to arma (“tools, arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”). Doublet of armada. Displaced native Old English here and fierd.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (with a good deal of literary overkill) that wars are mass insanity and that armies are madhouses." — 1970 September 13, Robie MacAuley, “The Army as one of life's awful necessities”, in The New York Times:

"Mr. Tenev, 33, is now in the hot seat again after Robinhood abruptly curtailed its customers’ trading last week amid a frenzy in stocks such as GameStop, which were driven sky high by an army of online investors." — 2021 February 2, Nathaniel Popper, Kellen Browning, Erin Griffith, “Robinhood’s C.E.O. Is in the Hot Seat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

"ARMY are clever, too: they urged fans not to buy J-Hope's mixtape Hope World on its release date, having worked out that delaying by a day would result in a higher ranking in the Billboard charts." — 2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, page 170:

"In this manner, ARMY gives charity in the name of BTS, and BTS responds by returning charity back to society in the name of ARMY." — 2019, Jeeheng Lee, BTS and ARMY Culture, page 163:

"The BTS boys love telling ARMY how important they are to them—without ARMY's unwavering love and support, BTS wouldn't be where they are today." — 2020, Becca Wright, The Unofficial BTS Fan Book: For the Bangtan ARMY, page 25:

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