Infantry : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Infantry	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
infantry n an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot" Synonym(s): infantry, foot
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Infantry \In"fan*try\, n. [F. infanterie, It. infanteria, fr. infante infant, child, boy servant, foot soldier, fr. L. infans, -antis, child; foot soldiers being formerly the servants and followers of knights. See {Infant}.] 1. A body of children. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. (Mil.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.