cavalry
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- noun
- /ˈkævəlri/
:
caballería
- After four years in the cavalry, there was nothing about horses that he didn't know.
- cavalry and infantry
- cavalry troops
- cavalry charge
At that moment, the Turkish cavalry struck the Greeks in the right flank.
- At that moment, the Turkish cavalry struck the Greeks in the right flank.
- The Companion cavalry would be the tip of that spear.
- Here we're seeing versatile light cavalry skirmishing.
- Would this be just the Imperial cavalry or what are we talking?
- But this is when they started to create their own cavalry armies.
- We're still thinking that the IRS is seeing everything and we're thinking somebody's coming, Cavalry's coming, but they weren't.
- So he enlisted the cavalry, winds up in a tank, winds up over in in Europe under Patton.
Examples
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Indeed, some historians suggest that the royal cavalry itself carried out the coup.
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Then both infantry and cavalry could advance through the gap.
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The cavalry is on the way.
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Okay, ladies, time to call out the cavalry.
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Garsiv's cavalry will lead the way.
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There's no use waiting for the cavalry, because, as of now, the cavalry is us.
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The king tries to retreat, but enemy cavalry flanks him from the rear.
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The host continued to swarm forward, the cavalry keeping pace with the infantry.
Fiction book (1990) -
A lieutenant colonel leading the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Moore details the battle of the Ia Drang.
Academic text (2001) -
The cavalry arrived in Gettysburg on the last day of June.
Synonyms
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Soldiers who work together as a group in an army
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A military unit of soldiers on horses with two or more troops and a headquarters
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Soldiers who fight while riding horses in wars before vehicles were common
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9.9
Volunteer soldiers on horses in Britain formed to defend the country
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9.0
Soldiers who ride camels to fight in deserts
A group of soldiers who use armored vehicles instead of horses
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A saddle with a metal back and front used by soldiers on horseback without a horn
How Mechanized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cavalry comes from old words for 'horse', such as Latin caballus and Italian cavallo, so it originally named soldiers who fought on horseback. So, cavalry were horse soldiers, and today the word still means troops who move by horse or by armored vehicles.