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semimilitary

semimilitary adjective: characteristic of the military, but not strictly suitable for it as such.

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

Forms of semimilitary

alternative formsemi-military

Questions about semimilitary

What does semimilitary mean?
Semimilitary means characteristic of the military, but not strictly suitable for it as such.
What part of speech is semimilitary?
Semimilitary is an adjective.

Words near semimilitary in the dictionary

  1. semimicrocuvette
  2. semimicrocuvettes
  3. semimicroelectrode
  4. semimicroelectrodes
  5. semimild
  6. semimilitary
  7. semimillennial
  8. semimineralized
  9. semiminim
  10. semiminims
  11. semiminor

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