Definition of Regiment

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Regiment

To form into classified units or bodies; to systematize according to classes, districts or the like.

Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.

A region or district governed.

A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.

To form into a regiment or into regiments.

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Regiment Quotations

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
George Armstrong Custer

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
Polly Toynbee

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.
Edward Carpenter

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
Hans Frank

Regiment Translations

regiment in Dutch is regiment
regiment in Italian is reggimento
regiment in Spanish is regimiento
regiment in Swedish is regemente

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