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–noun, plural -tries.

1.	soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapons.

2.	a branch of an army composed of such soldiers.

[Origin: 1570–80; < It infanteria, equiv. to infante boy, foot-soldier (see infant) + -ria -ry

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n. pl. in·fan·tries

The branch of an army made up of units trained to fight on foot.
Soldiers armed and trained to fight on foot: The general ordered his infantry to attack.
A unit, such as a regiment, of such soldiers: Company B of the 7th Infantry.

[French infanterie, from Old French, from Old Italian infanteria, from infante, youth, foot soldier, from Latin īnfāns, īnfant-, infant; see infant.]

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1579, from Fr. infantrie, from older It., Sp. infanteria "foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry," from infante "foot soldier," originally "a youth," from L. infantem (see infant).

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infantry
noun
an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"

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infantry [ˈinfəntri] noun or noun plural

(the part of an army consisting of) foot-soldiers
Example: The infantry was/were sent on ahead, with the artillery following in the rear.

Arabic:	مُشاه
Chinese (Simplified):	步兵
Chinese (Traditional):	步兵
Czech:	pěchota
Danish:	infanteri; fodfolk
Dutch:	infanterie
Estonian:	jalavägi
Finnish:	jalkaväki
French:	infanterie
German:	die Infanterie
Greek:	πεζικό
Hungarian:	gyalogság
Icelandic:	fótgöngulið
Indonesian:	infanteri
Italian:	fanteria

Japanese:	歩兵
Latvian:	kājnieki
Lithuanian:	pėstininkai
Norwegian:	infanteri
Polish:	piechota
Portuguese (Brazil):	infantaria
Portuguese (Portugal):	infantaria
Romanian:	infanterie
Russian:	пехота
Slovak:	pechota
Slovenian:	pehota
Spanish:	infantería
Swedish:	infanteri
Turkish:	piyade (birliği)

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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.

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