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squadrons

squadrons is the plural of squadron.

squadrons is the third-person singular simple present indicative of squadron.

Meaning of squadron

Noun

squadron (plural squadrons, abbreviation sqn)

  1. (obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square.
    • Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. (historical) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
  3. A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
  4. A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer
    • the North Atlantic Squadron
  5. (air force) A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
  6. (Space-Force, US) A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.

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Questions about squadrons

What is squadrons the plural of?
Squadrons is the plural of squadron.

Words near squadrons in the dictionary

  1. squadroned
  2. squadrones
  3. squadroning
  4. squadronmate
  5. squadronmates
  6. squadrons
  7. squads
  8. squaffle
  9. squaffles
  10. squail
  11. squailed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squadrons (page history and authors); squadron (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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