Definition of "armies" []

• Plural form of army. (noun)

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• "No other State north of South Carolina was so harried by the forces of the king; and against no other State did they direct such efforts or send such armies, —armies which held portions of it to the close of the war."
• "At the present moment, when our very existence is threatened by armies vastly superior in numbers to ours, the necessity for defense has induced a call, not for 'the whole militia of all the States,' not for any militia, but for men to compose _armies_ for the Confederate"
• "And President Bush is trying to rally what he calls the armies of compassion."