brigade
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
brigade (plural brigades)
- A group of people organized for a common purpose.
- a work brigade; a fire brigade
- (military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
- (derogatory) A group of people who share views or beliefs.
- More sympathy for career criminals from the bleeding-heart brigade!
Usage notes
- 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.
Quotations
- 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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
organized group of people
military unit
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Verb
brigade (third-person singular simple present brigades, present participle brigading, simple past and past participle brigaded)
- 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.
- 1969, William O. Douglas's opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio:
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbriˈɣaː.də/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bri‧ga‧de
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Noun
brigade f (plural brigades)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁi.ɡad/
Further reading
- “brigade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from French brigade, from Italian brigata, from Italian or Medieval Latin briga (“strife”).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French brigade, from Italian brigata, from Italian or Medieval Latin briga (“strife”).
References
- “brigade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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