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gendarmerie

/ʒɒnˈdɑː.mə.ɹi/US/ʒɑnˈdɑɹ.mə.ɹi/

gendarmerie noun: a military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.

Noun

gendarmerie (plural gendarmeries)

  1. A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.
    • We must defend it till the Gendarmerie turn out. Keep after me.1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 259

gendarmerie meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian

gendarmerie in Hindi

military body charged with police duties
जेंडरमेरी jeṇḍarmerī

gendarmerie in Tamil

படைக்கலந் தாங்கிய காவல்துறைப் பிரிவு

gendarmerie in Arabic

military body charged with police duties
دَرَك darak, جَنْدَرْمَة jandarma, حَرَس ḥaras

gendarmerie in Indonesian

military body charged with police duties
gendarmeri, marinyo
More languagesFewer languages
gendarmerie in Vietnamese
sen đầm, hiến binh

Forms of gendarmerie

pluralgendarmeries
alternative formgendarmery

Origin of gendarmerie

Borrowed from French gendarmerie.

Questions about gendarmerie

What does gendarmerie mean?
Gendarmerie means a military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.
What is gendarmerie in Hindi?
Gendarmerie in Hindi is जेंडरमेरी (jeṇḍarmerī). See Gendarmerie meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gendarmerie?
Gendarmerie is a noun.
How do you pronounce gendarmerie?
Gendarmerie is pronounced /ʒɒnˈdɑː.mə.ɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of gendarmerie?
The plural of gendarmerie is gendarmeries.

Words near gendarmerie in the dictionary

  1. Gend.
  2. Gendall
  3. gendang
  4. gendangs
  5. gendarme
  6. gendarmerie
  7. gendarmeries
  8. gendarmery
  9. gendarmes
  10. gendarmish
  11. gendarussa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gendarmerie (page history and authors); gendarmerie (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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