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btn is the abbreviation of battalion.

btn is the abbreviation of button.

Meaning of battalion

Noun

battalion (plural battalions)

  1. An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
  2. (US) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
  3. Any large body of troops.
  4. (broadly) A great number of things.
    Synonyms:
    heap, horde, load, mass, pile, swathe

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Meaning of button

Noun

button (plural buttons)

  1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
    • I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
    • Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.
  3. An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
    • Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
  4. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
    • The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
  5. A bud.
    • O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,c. 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen, act 3, scene 1, lines 4–6
  6. The calyx of an orange.
    • Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 14 inch in diameter on a 200 size orange. More than a few adjacent to the "button" at the stem end or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit.1969, Federal Register, volume 34, numbers 125-134, page 11315

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Forms of btn

pluralbtns

Questions about btn

What is btn the abbreviation of?
Btn is the abbreviation of battalion.

Words near btn in the dictionary

  1. BTK
  2. btl
  3. btm
  4. BTMM
  5. BTMs
  6. btn
  7. BTNP
  8. BTO
  9. BTO flat
  10. BTO flats
  11. BTOed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: btn (page history and authors); battalion (page history and authors); button (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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