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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: infantry n : an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot" [syn: {foot}]
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