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mil⋅i⋅tar⋅y

  [mil-i-ter-ee] adjective, noun, plural -tar⋅ies, -tar⋅y.
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–adjective
1. of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
2. of, for, or pertaining to war: military preparedness.
3. of or pertaining to soldiers.
4. befitting, characteristic of, or noting a soldier: a military bearing.
5. following the life of a soldier: a military career.
6. performed by soldiers: military duty.
–noun
7. the military,
a. the military establishment of a nation; the armed forces.
b. military personnel, esp. commissioned officers, taken collectively: the bar, the press, and the military.
Origin:
1575–85; < L mīlitāri(s), equiv. to mīlit- (s. of mīles) soldier + -āris -ary

Related forms:
mil⋅i⋅tar⋅i⋅ly  [mil-i-tair-uh-lee, mil-i-ter-uh-lee] , adverb
mil⋅i⋅tar⋅i⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
3. soldierly, soldierlike, martial.
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Word Origin & History

military 
1460, from M.Fr. militaire, from L. militaris "of soldiers or war," from miles (gen. militis) "soldier," perhaps ult. from Etruscan, or else meaning "one who marches in a troop," and thus connected to Skt. melah "assembly," Gk. homilos "assembled crowd, throng." The noun sense of "soldiers generally" is attested from 1757. Military-industrial complex coined 1961 in farewell speech of U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower. Militarism is first recorded 1864, from Fr. militarisme.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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