All 4 Uses of
battalion
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- At the time I arrived and joined the battalion, all the town was talking of the expected return of the colonel's second daughter, a great beauty, who had just left a fashionable school in the capital.†
Chpt 3
- Suddenly the new major arrived to take command of the battalion.†
Chpt 3 *
- All at once an orderly arrives on the scene with the book and the order to 'hand over the battalion money immediately, within two hours.'†
Chpt 3
- Well, the lieutenant-colonel produced the battalion money, to the astonishment of every one, for nobody believed that he had the money untouched.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(battalion) a large group of soldiers -- especially an army unit consisting of a headquarters and at least three companies