Antonyms for battalion
bəˈtæl yənbat·tal·ion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. battalionnoun

   A great number of things.

   Synonyms:
   heap, pile, swathe, load, mass, horde

Matched Categories

1. • Army Unit
   • Large Indefinite Quantity

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. battalionnoun

   an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies

   Synonyms:
   pack, multitude, plurality, large number

2. battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, packnoun

   a large indefinite number

   "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"

   Synonyms:
   mob, mass, coterie, masses, pack, gang, plurality, ingroup, large number, inner circle, the great unwashed, face pack, multitude, clique, camp, concourse, throng, hoi polloi, ring, relative majority, people

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lone wolf.

   noun a person who prefers to act or be alone. mainly used for military.

   lone wolf is a term commonly used by many people. it means that they used to belong to a group and left to become stronger.

   Submitted by rinat on November 2, 2015  

How to use battalion in a sentence?

1. Jacky Rosen:

   The heroic, barrier-breaking members of the Six Six Triple Eight Six Triple Eight Battalion -- which included brave Nevada women -- played a crucial role in the operations of our armed forces during World War II, they deserve our nation's highest honors for their service. There is no better time to give them this long-overdue recognition than during Women's History Month, and I'm proud to see President Biden sign our bipartisan legislation into law.

2. Didier Badjeck:

   The Rapid Intervention Battalion of our army immediately launched an attack, seized 84 children between seven and 15 who were undergoing training in the camp, arrested 45 of the trainers and killed many more.

3. Joseph Pfeifer:

   I had to devise a plan on what to do. And the plan was to evacuate the building, and then rescue those that couldn’t get out, and then I had to give those orders to the fire officers, captains and lieutenants and battalion chiefs that came in, and the firefighters.

4. Defense Secretary James Mattis:

   Now, there's all sorts of stuff in the news, and that sort of thing. You just concentrate on what your company commander, your battalion commander tells you. Because if you read all that stuff, you know, you'll go nuts, you know what your mission is here. You've had to deploy on short notice to a nontraditional location and do your jobs. So you focus on doing that.

5. Staff General Raymond Odierno:

   In the past we would have a British Army division working alongside an American division. Now it might be a British brigade inside an American division, or even a British battalion inside an American brigade.

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