Noun: cavalry
| Singular | cavalry |
| Plural | cavalries |
Sample Sentences
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Two hundred heavily-armed cavalry rode behind the Audley standard, while close at their heels came the Duke of Lancaster with a glittering train, heralds tabarded with the royal arms riding three deep upon cream-colored chargers in front of him. [1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter XXXIII, in The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC:]
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call in the cavalry
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"We landed in their killbox?" "We did. I am sor... No, belay that. Heads down! Cavalry incoming!" [2015 February 1, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 14 May 2024:]
Nouns inflected like cavalry
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
3. Latin caballus
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
5. Proto-Italic *-āzios
6. Latin -āriusnom.
7. Latin -ārius
8. Late Latin caballāriusder.
9. Old Occitan cavalierbor.
10. Italian cavaliere
11. ▲
12. Latin -ārius
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
15. Proto-Italic *-ā
16. Latin -a
17. Latin -āriader.
18. Italian -eria
19. Italian cavalleriabor.
20. Middle French cavaleriebor.
21. English cavalry
22. From Middle French cavalerie, in turn from Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s. Doublet of chivalry. See: Italian Nouns '
cavalleria'.
Verbs referencing "cavalry"
Swedish Nouns
kavalleri.