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MARINES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Marines" is a kind of...):
armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Marines"):
Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An amphibious division of the United States Navy
Synonyms:
Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Marines" is a kind of...):
Marines (members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea)
Meronyms (parts of "Marines"):
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity; MCIA (an agency of the United States Marine Corps that provides responsive and broad intelligence support for the worldwide Marine Corps organization)
Meronyms (members of "Marines"):
devil dog; leatherneck; Marine; shipboard soldier (a member of the United States Marine Corps)
Holonyms ("Marines" is a part of...):
Navy; United States Navy; US Navy; USN (the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces)
