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n. An army unit typically consisting of a headquarters and two or more companies, batteries, or similar subunits.

n. A large body of organized troops.

n. A great number: battalions of ants.

n. An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.

n. an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.

n. Any large body of troops.

n. A great number of things.

v. To form into battalions.

n. A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.

n. An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed.

v. To form into battalions.

n. An army in battle array.

n. In general, any distinct portion of an army or minor body of troops acting together: as, God is on the side of the largest battalions (a saying attributed to Turenne); a battalion of infantry, cavalry, grenadiers, voltigeurs, etc.

n. Technically, a body of infantry composed of two or more companies forming part of a regiment, or sometimes constituting a whole regiment.

n. a large indefinite number

n. an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies

"Many hands make lighter work, said Staff Sgt. Joel Mabry of Cullman, Ala., who is deployed with an engineering battalion from the Alabama National Guard."

large indefinite quantity    large indefinite amount   

division    mass    heap    horde    swathe    pile    load   

Italian    gallion    medallion    scallion    stallion   

brigade    platoon    infantry    squadron    troop    division    commander    detachment    headquarters    unit