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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Military \Mil"i*ta*ry\, noun [Cf. F. militaire.] The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Military \Mil"i*ta*ry\, adjective [L. militaris, militarius, from miles, militis, soldier: cf. F. militaire.]
1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. --Shak.
2. Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition. --Bacon.
{Military law}. See {Martial law}, under {Martial}.
{Military order}. (a) A command proceeding from a military superior. (b) An association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction.
{Military tenure}, tenure of land, on condition of performing military service.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
military
adjective
1: of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare; "military law"
2: characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military; "military uniforms" [ant: {unmilitary}]
3: associated with or performed by armed services as contrasted with civilians; "military police" [ant: {civilian}]
noun: the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" [syn: {armed forces}, {armed services}, {military machine}, {war machine}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "military": aggressive, air force, antagonistic, armed force, armed forces, armed service, army, array, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, career soldiers, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fighting machine, forces, full of fight, ground forces, ground troops, hawkish, host, hostile, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, legions, martial, militant, militaristic, military establishment, naval, navy, occupation force, offensive, paratroops, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rank and file, ranks, regular army, regulars, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, service, ski troops, soldierlike, soldierly, soldiery, standing army, storm troops, the line, the military, trigger-happy, troops, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warring
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