Army and Formation

Army

Army noun - A large body of men and women organized for land warfare.

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Formation and army are semantically related. in military force topic. In some cases you can use "Formation" instead a noun "Army".

Nearby Words: armed, arming

Formation noun - The way in which something is sized, arranged, or organized.

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Army and formation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Army" instead a noun "Formation".

Nearby Words: form, formed, forming, format, formative

good	good army	good formation
proper	proper army	proper formation
single	single army	single formation
actual	actual army	actual formation
Other adjectives: entire, massive, large, capable, new, last, giant, soviet, greek.

He held it together long enough to organise his army into formation, but then it's shown in Ender's Shadow that he has himself frozen and hands the whole army over to Bean.

Source: Heroic BSOD / Literature
But armies like the Romans, Greeks, generally any spearmen on any battlefield, and any modern European army, all stayed as a block of troops and worked together in a distinct formation.

Source: Call That a Formation?
The Khasi himself, who turns up to watch the war and, indeed lead his own army although the sight of massed British Army genitalia in close formation scares him off in the end.

Source: Film / Carry On... Up the Khyber

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