Need another word that means the same as “military”? Find 11 synonyms and 30 related words for “military” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Military” are: fighting, armed, soldierly, martial, military machine, war machine, army, forces, services, militia, soldiery
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “military” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| army | The army of the United States of America the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare. An army of photographers. |
| forces | The influence that produces a change in a physical quantity. |
| military machine | The military forces of a nation. |
| militia | (in the US) all able-bodied civilians eligible by law for military service. Their troops were untrained militia. |
| services | A means of serving. The mayor tried to maintain city services. |
| soldiery | Soldiers collectively. The arts of soldiery. |
| war machine | A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “military” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| armed | Involving the use of firearms. The many armed goddess Shiva. |
| fighting | Engaged in or ready for military or naval operations. He was a fighting man. |
| martial | Suggesting war or military life. Martial bravery. |
| soldierly | Befitting a warrior. It is not soldierly to shrink from the perils of the field. |
| ammunition | Projectiles to be fired from a gun. Guns ammunition and explosives. |
| armament | A military force equipped for war. Instruments of disarmament rather than of armament. |
| armed | Equipped with or carrying a firearm or firearms. Heavily armed troops. |
| arms | Weapons considered collectively. Arms exports. |
| army | The army of the United States of America the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare. He joined the army at 16. |
| arsenal | A collection of weapons and military equipment. We have an arsenal of computers at our disposal. |
| artillery | An army unit that uses big guns. Each corps included two regiments of field artillery. |
| battlefield | A place or situation of strife or conflict. Battlefield conditions. |
| cantonment | A military garrison or camp. |
| combatant | A person or nation engaged in fighting during a war. In the long Russo Swedish conflict both combatants endured terrible sacrifices. |
| disarm | Take away the weapons from; render harmless. Camp humour acts to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation. |
| fort | Enclose by or as if by a fortification. The city was guarded by a ring of forts. |
| fortress | A military stronghold, especially a strongly fortified town. He had proved himself to be a fortress of moral rectitude. |
| gun | Used as a nickname for a ship s gunnery officer. The boom of the one o clock gun echoed across the river. |
| legionary | A soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion. The legionary fortress of Isca. |
| martial | (of persons) befitting a warrior. Martial law. |
| munition | Supply with munitions. Reserves of nuclear chemical and conventional munitions. |
| naval | Relating to a navy or navies. A naval base. |
| ordnance | Mounted guns; artillery. The ordnance corps. |
| siege | An operation in which a police or other force surround a building and cut off supplies, with the aim of forcing an armed person to surrender. Two cult members have died so far in the four day siege. |
| soldier | Serve as a soldier in the military. I soldiered with your father on his last four campaigns. |
| tactic | An action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end. The minority attempted to control the Council by a delaying tactic. |
| turret | A rotating holder for tools, especially on a lathe. A castle with fairy tale turrets. |
| war | Engage in a war. The war on poverty. |
| warfare | The waging of armed conflict against an enemy. Guerrilla warfare. |
| warlike | Disposed towards or threatening war; hostile. A warlike clan. |
| warring | (of two or more people or groups) in conflict with each other. A warring couple. |
| warrior | Any of a number of standing poses in yoga in which the legs are held apart and the arms are stretched outwards. I really love the warrior pose it makes me feel centred and strong. |
| weapon | Any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting. Resignation threats had long been a weapon in his armoury. |
| weaponry | Weapons considered collectively. America s weaponry. |
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