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Plural of regiment

regular plural

The plural of regiment is regiments.

Forms of regiment

Singularregiment /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪmənt/
Pluralregiments /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪmənts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Regiments in a sentence

  • As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.2005 April 28, Nicholas Watt, Michael White, The Guardian
  • The regiments were punished for their disobeyal of orders.From the entry disobeyal
  • Collectively, these groups constitute the regiments of the red-squirrelian defence force.2023, Peter Coates, Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home, page 177. From the entry squirrelian
  • Of the 12 cavalry brigades, seven were British and many of their regiments were German.2015 June 12, John Lichfield, “Waterloo 200-year anniversary: The myths of the battle that changed history. Or maybe not...”, in The…. From the entry Hannoverian
  • In the fall, regiments of straw-suitcased small-town high-school graduates were disgorged from the trains in Garden Prairie.1960, Georg Mann, The dollar diploma, page 21. From the entry suitcased

Meaning of regiment

  1. noun A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units.
  2. noun Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority.
  3. noun The state or office of a ruler; rulership.

Full definition of regiment

Questions about the plural of regiment

What is the plural of regiment?
The plural of regiment is regiments.
Is regiment countable?
Regiment is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: regiment (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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