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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
regiment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Royal Regiment of Scotland, the
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
join
▪ A few girls, their escorts already gone to join their regiments, wept.
▪ And recent graduates of area schools joined hastily formed regiments.
▪ In 1946 Yehuda joined the zionist Palmach regiment, and fought in the Negev desert two years later.
▪ I saw him berating them and trying to shame them into joining their regiments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He cooked Thanksgiving dinner for a regiment of friends and family.
▪ the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A commission appointed by the governor concluded that even a regiment could not have controlled the mob.
▪ And the first regiment will move in next March.
▪ Another regiment of twigs was fighting something unseen in the sky.
▪ As the joint author of a recent book on the regiment explains.
▪ Balcarre's and Barclay's regiments of horse are confused.
▪ But Frederick will soon have to return to his regiment, Henry reassures her.
▪ From divisions to brigades, from brigades to regiments, the order ran.
▪ In 1946 Yehuda joined the zionist Palmach regiment, and fought in the Negev desert two years later.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regiment

Regiment \Reg"i*ment\ (-ment), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Regimenting.]

  1. To form into a regiment or into regiments.
    --Washington.

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

    The people are organized or regimented into bodies, and special functions are relegated to the several units.
    --J. W. Powell.

  3. To organize and manage in a uniform and rigid manner; to control with a strict discipline.

Regiment

Regiment \Reg"i*ment\ (-ment), n. [F. r['e]giment a regiment of men, OF. also government, L. regimentum government, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regimen.]

  1. Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen. [Obs.]
    --Spenser. ``Regiment of health.''
    --Bacon.

    But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
    --Marlowe.

    The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment.
    --Hocker.

  2. A region or district governed. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

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

    Note: In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment, which (reversing the usual practice) is divided into brigades.

    Regiment of the line (Mil.), a regiment organized for general service; -- in distinction from those (as the Life Guards) whose duties are usually special. [Eng.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
regiment

late 14c., "government, rule, control," from Old French regiment "government, rule" (14c.), from Late Latin regimentum "rule, direction," from Latin regere "to rule" (see regal). Meaning "unit of an army" first recorded 1570s (originally the reference was to permanent organization and discipline), from French. The exact number in the unit varies over time and place.

regiment

"to form into a regiment," 1610s, from regiment (n.). General sense of "organize systematically" is from 1690s. Related: Regimented; regimenting.

Wiktionary
regiment

n. 1 (context military English) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions. (from 16th c.) 2 (context now rare archaic English) rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority. (from 14th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. (14th-17th c.) 4 (context obsolete English) influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). (14th-17th c.) 5 (context obsolete English) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. (14th-17th c.) 6 (context obsolete medicine English) A regimen. (15th-19th c.) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To form soldiers into a regiment. 2 (context transitive English) To systematize, or put in rigid order.

WordNet
regiment

  1. n. army unit smaller than a division

  2. v. subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization; "regiment one's children"

  3. form (military personnel) into a regiment

  4. assign to a regiment; "regiment soldiers"

Wikipedia
Regiment

A regiment is a military unit. Their role and size varies markedly, depending on the country and the arm of service.

In Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscripted in one geographical area, by a leader who was often also the feudal lord of the soldiers.

By the 17th Century, a full-strength regiment was usually about a thousand personnel, and was usually commanded by a colonel.

Usage examples of "regiment".

The Minister of War, in a barrack-square allocution to the officers of the artillery regiment he had been inspecting, had declared the national honour sold to foreigners.

Uncle Sam was called to fight for humanity, and only an approximation of the condition can be made, for about two-thirds of the National Guard had been taken into the regular service incident to the trouble with Mexico, when the Guardsmen were summoned to the border to protect the country, and recruiting was proceeding in all branches of the service to bring all the regiments up to a war footing.

Once a division received its supplies, the food had to be divided among the brigades, then further separated and sent to the regiments and artillery batteries and cavalry units.

Union army, a mile and a half from the blacksmith shop, Israel Richardson waited with two batteries, backed by his four infantry regiments.

His Grace, the Blesser of Sorbold, has an honor regiment here to greet you.

Early in August we were brought from Bridgewater to Taunton, where we were thrown with hundreds of others into the same wool storehouse where our regiment had been quartered in the early days of the campaign.

In brigading the regiments no attention whatever was paid to the race or color of the men.

I have my regiment billeted at Marlock, and am on my way across England to Hull, there to join General Wade.

Notwithstanding these precautions, his Prussian majesty, to guard as much as could be against every possible event, sent a great number of gunners and matrasses from Pomerania to Memel, with three regiments of his troops, to reinforce the garrison of that place.

A second rampway was lowered from the center of the defensive lines, and the tall figure of Messaline was seen to appear at the head of a second regiment of Legion soldiers who descended on foot onto the smoke-clouded grasslands.

I had a messmate once as was sailing past a rock they call Ailsa Craig, and saw a regiment of soldiers a-marching in the sky.

General Wood had served for some time as civil governor of the Moro Province and had become well-known to its people, a long cable message came through from the Colonel of an infantry regiment just newly arrived at Camp Keithley, the Federal post at Lanao.

Colonel Mouton rode his horse out onto the green slope in front of the ravine and waited for his regiment to move out of the trees and join him in the failing light.

Along the borders of the Bussex Rhine a deep fringe of their musqueteers were exchanging murderous volleys, almost muzzle to muzzle, with the left wing of the same regiment with which we were engaged, which was supported by a second regiment in broad white facings, which I believe to have belonged to the Wiltshire Militia.

It soon became evident that these regiments would be mustered out of the service, as they had proven themselves no more immune, so far as it could be determined from the facts, than other troops.