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semi-military

semi-military is the alternative spelling of semimilitary.

Meaning of semimilitary

Adjective

semimilitary (not comparable)

  1. Characteristic of the military, but not strictly suitable for it as such.
    • The appearance of German “brown shirts” parading through the streets in semimilitary dress, with the white stockings that distinguished the Baltic storm troopers, was not reassuring to the population of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.1943, Gregory Meiksins, chapter VI, in The Baltic Riddle, New York: L. B. Fischer, page 102

Questions about semi-military

What is semi-military the alternative spelling of?
Semi-military is the alternative spelling of semimilitary.

Words near semi-military in the dictionary

  1. semi-metal
  2. semi-metallic
  3. semi-metals
  4. semi-metro
  5. semi-metros
  6. semi-military
  7. semi-minor
  8. semi-minor axes
  9. semi-minor axis
  10. semi-molten
  11. semi-monocoque

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semi-military (page history and authors); semimilitary (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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