army

noun

1. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

   “An army never can be commanded or controlled by civilians.”

   “The army was sent in to quell the uprising.”

   “This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (with a good deal of literary overkill) that wars are mass insanity and that armies are madhouses.”

2. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

   “The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force.”

3. (capitalized, often)A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

   “The Fourth Army suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second Army, also deployed on the Western front.”

4. The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.

   “The army opposed the legislature's involvement.”

5. (figuratively)A large group of people working toward the same purpose.

   “It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud.”

   “On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds.”

   “Mr. Tenev, 33, is now in the hot seat again after Robinhood abruptly curtailed its customers’ trading last week amid a frenzy in stocks such as GameStop, which were driven sky high by an army of online investors.”

6. (figuratively)A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.

   “Our house is being attacked by an army of ants.”

7. (figuratively)Any multitude.

   “There was an army of construction cranes working on building the skyscraper.”

8. The military as a whole.

   “The People's Liberation Army Navy of China.”

   “The Yugoslav Army consisted of the War Navy, Ground Forces, and Air Force.”

   “Iran's army consists of the Navy, Ground Forces, and Air Force.”

9. (slang, uncountable)The fandom of the K-pop boy band BTS.

   “ARMY are clever, too: they urged fans not to buy J-Hope's mixtape Hope World on its release date, having worked out that delaying by a day would result in a higher ranking in the Billboard charts.”

   “In this manner, ARMY gives charity in the name of BTS, and BTS responds by returning charity back to society in the name of ARMY.”

   “The BTS boys love telling ARMY how important they are to them—without ARMY's unwavering love and support, BTS wouldn't be where they are today.”

10. (countable, slang)An individual fan of the K-pop boy band BTS.

    “Entering the theater, I expected the room to be filled with ARMYs decked out in their BTS merchandise.”

    “It began when an ARMY tweeted something along the lines of: “If there are so many of us everywhere in the world, shouldn't we make a change and help people?””

    “As of this writing, the Philippines is not included in the tour but Filipino ARMYs are hoping the group will eventually perform in Manila for a fourth time.”

name

1. A sports team representing the US Military Academy at West Point.

   “Army has several returning starters this year.”

2. Hexagram 7 of the I Ching (䷆)