brigade

Borrowed from French brigade.

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

brigade (plural brigades)

1. A group of people organized for a common purpose.

   a work brigade; a fire brigade

2. (military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
3. (derogatory) A group of people who share views or beliefs.

   More sympathy for career criminals from the bleeding-heart brigade!

• In many countries, a military brigade was traditionally formed from two or more regiments. According to the country and time period, brigade may also designate a much smaller group of soldiers. A modern US brigade usually consists of three battalions and forms part of a division.

• 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 228:

  The rifle brigade had arrived in Soldau with no commander, no staff, no artillery, just four separate regiments, each of them moving as it thought best and looking for something to do.

• brigadier
• brigadier general

brigade (third-person singular simple present brigades, present participle brigading, simple past and past participle brigaded)

1. To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.
   • 1969, William O. Douglas's opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio:

     This is, however, a classic case where speech is brigaded with action.

• Abridge, abridge, bigrade

Borrowed from French brigade.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbriˈɣaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: bri‧ga‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

brigade f (plural brigades)

1. brigade, a military unit consisting of two or more regiments, often using combined arms or of diverse disciplines
2. a police unit of varying size or purpose, but often serving a specialised purpose

• brigadegeneraal
• brigadier
• brigadist

Borrowed from Italian brigata.

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.ɡad/

brigade f (plural brigades)

1. (military) brigade
2. brigade (group, organization)

• → English: brigade
• → German: Brigade
  • → Russian: бригада (brigada)

• “brigade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from French brigade, from Italian brigata, from Italian or Medieval Latin briga (“strife”).

brigade m (definite singular brigaden, indefinite plural brigader, definite plural brigadene)

1. (military) a brigade

• “brigade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French brigade, from Italian brigata, from Italian or Medieval Latin briga (“strife”).

brigade m (definite singular brigaden, indefinite plural brigadar, definite plural brigadane)

1. (military) a brigade

• “brigade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.