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Meaning of "milliary" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MILLIARY

From Latin milliārius containing a thousand, from mille thousand.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MILLIARY

milliary  [ˈmɪljərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MILLIARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Milliary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MILLIARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of milliary in the English dictionary

The definition of milliary in the dictionary is relating to or marking a distance equal to an ancient Roman mile of a thousand paces.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MILLIARY


auxiliary
ɔːɡˈzɪljərɪ
aviary
ˈeɪvjərɪ
breviary
ˈbriːvjərɪ
colliery
ˈkɒljərɪ
miliary
ˈmɪljərɪ
postliminiary
ˌpəʊstlɪˈmɪnjərɪ
seigneurie
ˈseɪnjərɪ
seigneury
ˈseɪnjərɪ
seigniory
ˈseɪnjərɪ
seignory
ˈseɪnjərɪ
signeurie
ˈsiːnjərɪ
signiory
ˈsiːnjərɪ
signory
ˈsiːnjərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MILLIARY

milliampere
milliard
milliare
millibar
millicurie
millidegree
millie
millieme
millier
milligal
Milligan
milligram
milligramme
millihenry
Millikan
millilambert
milliliter
millilitre
millilux
millime

WORDS THAT END LIKE MILLIARY

ariary
beneficiary
biliary
ciliary
conciliary
diary
domiciliary
evangeliary
fiduciary
intermediary
judiciary
ladies´ auxiliary
nobiliary
nursing auxiliary
penitentiary
subsidiary
superciliary
supraciliary
tertiary
wholly-owned subsidiary

Synonyms and antonyms of milliary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «milliary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MILLIARY

Find out the translation of milliary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of milliary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «milliary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

milliary
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

miliar
570 millions of speakers

English

milliary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

milliary
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

milliary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

milliary
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

milliary
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

milliary
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

milliaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bilion
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

milliary
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

milliary
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

milliary
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Milliary
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

milliary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

milliary
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गटारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mile ait
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

miliare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

milliary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

milliary
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

milliary
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

milliary
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

milliary
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Milliary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

milliary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of milliary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MILLIARY»

The term «milliary» is used very little and occupies the 184.794 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MILLIARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «milliary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «milliary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about milliary

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MILLIARY»

Discover the use of milliary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to milliary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity: A Review of ...
Luke tells of Paul's arrest by Claudius Lysias, a tribune and supposedly a commander of a milliary unit The event can be dated approximately to AD 57. E.M. Small wood, The Jews under Roman Rule (Leiden 1976), p. 147 n.14, holds that the ...
S. R. Llewelyn, 1992
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The Military Decorations of the Roman Army
He held the post of £n<xpxoc, Gi&ipnQ d xeihtivSpou , prefect of the first milliary cohort. The command is anomalous, a milliary cohort normally being commanded by a tribune and not a prefect. This led Pflaum to suggest that OTteipnc, cohors, ...
Valerie A. Maxfield, 1981
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The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on ...
while s.v. "auxilia" that 'Probably in the Flavian era larger regiments (milliary) were created.' The earliest documentary evidence for the existence of milliary cohorts dates to AD 85 when two such cohorts (l Britannic a milliaria and / Brittonum ...
Bruce W. Winter, P. J. Williams, 2004
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Roman Auxiliary Forts 27 BC-AD 378
He records that the ala milliaria ('milliary squadron') was subdivided into 24 turmae ('troops'), each officered by three men: a decurio ('decurion'), a duplicarius ('double-pay man'), and a sesquiplicarius ('pay-and-a-half man'). He further claims ...
Duncan B. Campbell, 2009
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The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First ...
For example, milliary alae and cohorts were either introduced or greatly increased in numbers during the post-Flavian period (the first authenticated appearance at a milliary ala occurs in A.D. 85). 226 The new formations were clearly useful in ...
Edward Luttwak, 1979
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A Companion to the Roman Empire
47) shows that on one particular day the strength of this milliary cohort was 923 troops, including 223 cavalry and 34 camel riders. Auxiliary cavalry was organized in units called alae (wings), also quingenary or milliary (Le Bohec 1989b; ...
David S. Potter, 2009
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Sporting Magazine
324 as on the contrary, the disease is now carried from the large glands of the throat, &c. to the milliary glands : the infectious matter (in its most putrid state) being always communicated through the nos- trils, to the glands of the throat ; and ...
‎1797
8
Roman Guardsman 62 BC–AD 324
Rather than suggest more space accorded to a more prestigious unit, it probably shows that the praetorians were organized into milliary cohorts (most legionary cohorts were quingenary). The cohorts were certainly milliary in the Severan era,  ...
Ross Cowan, 2014
9
The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History
Only a few of the equestrian officers would ever reach this post in a milliary ala, and with luck and opportunity he could go on to higher equestrian posts, culminating in one of the great Prefectures in Rome. Tribunus (Tribune) of a Cohors ...
Pat Southern, 2007
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Between Rome and Persia: The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia ...
... Palmyrenorum was a milliary cohors equitata, but its structure is unusual given other textual evidence.250 According to Hyginus, probably writing in the reign of Trajan, a milliary cohort was then composed of both infantry and cavalry (cohors  ...
Peter Edwell, 2007

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MILLIARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term milliary is used in the context of the following news items.
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Iraqi forces push back IS in Baiji: US military
... Baiji on Sunday, striking IS group positions and seven vehicles, according to a release from the milliary command overseeing the air war. «Yahoo! Maktoob News, Jun 15»
2
Three arrested after raid on West Hills Mall
A man in military uniform who introduced himself as a milliary officer to the police and assisted in the search for the suspects was also arrested. «Graphic Online, May 15»
3
Wind beneath her wings
So I get to meet women at the airforce base, milliary people, policemen and controllers. I am also surprised when I see so many women flying in ... «Deccan Herald, Feb 15»
4
Charter school defends drop
But Vanguard Milliary School chief executive Nick Hyde said roll numbers had dropped because students had already passed their ... «Stuff.co.nz, Nov 14»
5
KNH patient was not raped, says hospital
He says also Nyaguthie (who passed on two months after the alleged rape) died from Milliary Tuberculosis according to a post-mortem ... «Capital FM Kenya, Aug 13»
6
Navy names ships after Sioux City and Omaha
There's always been a great milliary connection with the towns and cities of the midwest,” Maybus said. That connection ties to the battleship ... «Radio Iowa, Feb 12»
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Looking Back Josephine Bracken: woman with a past
... Josephine Bracken remains controversial 119 years after she died of ?milliary tuberculosis and ulceration of the breast.? The latest addition ... «Inquirer.net, May 11»
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Cadets strut their stuff
"If they're interested in taking a career with the forces, if they go through and age out of the cadet program, when they start with the Milliary, they ... «Strathmore Standard, May 10»

REFERENCE
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