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infantry (iou)



infantry noun. L16.
[French infanterie from Italian infanteria, from infante youth, foot-soldier, from Latin infant-: see INFANT noun1, -ERY.]
Soldiers marching or fighting on foot; the body of foot-soldiers. L16.
light infantry: see LIGHT adjective1. mounted infantry soldiers who are mounted for transit but who fight on foot.
C. V. Wedgwood Two hundred infantry and forty horsemen crossed from the mainland to the Isle of Wight.
collect. Infants. joc. E17.
M. Needham The little dirty Infantry, which swarms up and down in Alleys and Lanes.
Comb.: infantryman a soldier of an infantry regiment.