Militia

Definition: Militia

Militia

Noun

1. Civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army.

Date "militia" was first used: 1590. (references)

Etymology: Militia \Mi*li"tia\, noun. [Latin expression, military service, soldiery, from miles, militis, soldier: compare to the French expression milice.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Militia

Synonym: reserves (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Militia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In general, a militia is the entire able-bodied population of a nation that can be called upon to defend itself against an enemy. It is distinguished from the organized military forces of that nation. It can serve to supplement the regular military as an irregular reserve, or it can oppose it, for example to resist a military coup.

U.S. and English

For much of the history of England, the military was controlled by Parliament, which had access to the resources to maintain a standing army. At various times, the Crown and Parliament were in strong disagreement, but Parliament's economic ability to use the army was counterbalanced by the Crown's traditional ability to call out the militia. As long as the army's weapons were not radically more powerful than the militia's, this balance of power was effective.

The early Puritan colonists of America considered the militia an important social structure, nessecary to defend their colonies from Native American attacks. All ablebodied white males were expected to be members of the town milita.

In the American Revolutionary War, colonial militiamen or armed citizens agreed to turn out for service at a minute's notice. The term minutemen is used especially for the men who were enrolled (1774) for such service by the Massachusetts provincial congress. These were also known as the "valiant farmers" who fought against the British at Lexington and Concord.

The Framers of the United States in keeping with this tradition, gave Congress the power to "provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia," as well as, and in distinction to, the power to raise an army and a navy. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States may have been intended to formalize this balance between the "well-regulated" militia and organized military forces. Considerable controversy exists in the US over this amendment, however, and the ability of even a well-regulated militia to resist a modern army is debatable.

The United States Consolidated Statutes Title 10 (Armed forces), section 311 (Militia: Composition and Classes), paragraph (a) states "The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard."

The National Guard is the largest of the state militia forces in the United States. It is under both Federal and state control, and both the President of the United States and the state governor can call up the National Guard. Many National Guard units have recently served in Iraq. This can lead to problems for states that also face internal emergencies while the Guard is deployed overseas. Many of the states, such as New York and Maryland have organized state militia forces or State Guards which are under the control of the governor of a state and used to augment the National Guard.

There is also a political movement that calls itself 'militia' and is based on the common-law concept of an armed citizenry. These are not formally linked to a state or to the Federal government, and often oppose the Federal government because of what they see are oppressive policies. Most, but not all, are also opposed to illegal immigration, and several espouse white supremacy. The movement peaked in the early 1990s, but declined in popularity after the bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1996.

Swiss

One of the most famous, and ancient militia are the Swiss militia. It is not widely recognized, but Switzerland is the most militaristic society on Earth, maintaining more than twice as many active-duty soldiers per capita as the next-most-militaristic country, Israel, and a trained, mobilizable reserve militia of 36% of the total population. However, it should be noted that Switzerland has a long tradition of political and military neutrality.

Switzerland's militia is recruited by the Swiss national military and sports bureau. All able-bodied males are conscripted, trained and serve between the ages of 20 and 42 (52 for officers) for about a year and a half. Swiss physical education prepares young people for this training. Thereafter, men remain in the militia until the age of 50, performing a week of training each year.

To reduce training and logistics, Swiss military systems standardize on relatively few types of weapons, which are carefully selected. For example, Switzerland has one rifle, and only three types of ground-based anti-aircraft systems.

To assure professional military leadership, the Bureau also maintains professional schools for noncommisioned and commissioned officers. These require more than minimum service times.

As you can tell from the peculiar name of the training organization, military training is not a temporary horror, but a continuing set of enjoyable patriotic activities.

For military combat specialties that cannot be effectively trained in the brief national service period, such as combat pilots, commandos and military divers, the bureau pre-trains teenagers using state-supported sporting centers for glider and flying clubs, scuba-diving and parachuting. Computer based training is a growing part of formal Swiss military training and certification, which is lifelong.

All of Swiss society celebrates shooting, and skill with the rifle. For example, each year Zurich shuts down a whole day for its "Boys' Shooting Festival." Children, male and female, as young as eight and as old as seventeen compete in riflery. It is a traditional holiday.

It is absolutely commonplace to see handsome young men and pretty young women from shooting clubs. In patriotic and sports parades they march in civilian clothes with standard-issue (black) military sharp-shooting rifles. Older men shoot together with the same attitude as those that play golf in other countries.

Weapons and equipment are inexpensively available at the army surplus stores, which sell everything the army uses, especially in obsolete forms. Swiss students habitually camp in surplus army gear.

Famously, militia members keep their rifles and uniforms in their house for immediate mobilization. Swiss military doctrines are arranged in peculiar ways to make this organization effective.

For example, most armies use assault rifles, which are designed for mass fire at close range, with a willingness to accept the relatively high casualties of this approach. The explicit justification is to substitute higher casualty rates and mechanized resupply of ammunition to compensate for recruits' poor skills with weapons.

To some extent, the Swiss substitute life-long weapons training for the logistics equipment required for mass unaimed fire. Swiss rifles are designed for long-range aimed fire, and shoot heavy, high-velocity bullets. Each militiaman is issued only 50 rounds of ammunition in a can. The can, rifle and militia member are inspected and trained each year during a week of national service training. The result is a safer soldier with more skills.

Swiss building codes require radiation and blast shelters, to protect against bombing. Further, tunnels and bridges are built with tank traps, mines and explosives. Permanent fortifications are established in the Italian alps, as a base to retake the fertile valleys after an invasion.

Swiss doctrine is "Total Resistance." The Swiss plan to destroy their country totally rather than give it to an invader. Surrender is legally impossible.

Switzerland is currently reorganizing its military into a smaller, less expensive elite professional military. The country is reluctant to give up the power and romance of a large militia, but recognizes that modern weapons may well make a large group of riflemen much less effective than it once was.

However, Swiss mothers still teach their children that freedom grows from the guns of free men.

Citizens are concerned about terrorism, and passed new federal gun control legislation in 1997. Restrictive licensing is required for pistols and machine-guns, but the law has numerous exceptions for semiautomatic rifles of the types used by the militia and shooting clubs.

One famous story shows the pride and citizenship that makes the militia such a powerful part of Swiss life. It is said that Kaiser Wilhelm was touring a Swiss training depot. He stopped, and asked a Swiss recruit, "The Empire can field 500,000 men, the Swiss only 250,000. Does that worry you?"

The recruit said, "No sir. We'll just shoot twice."

Canada

In Canada the word militia refers to the part-time army reserve component of the Canadian Armed Forces. Officers and soldiers in the militia train for one or two weekends a month and for two weeks a year. They can also volunteer for service with the regular forces including peacekeeping missions overseas.

Most Canadian cities have one or more militia units. Often these 'regiments' perpetuate famous Canadian regiments that are no longer required as part of the regular forces.

Some militia regiments:

48th Highlanders of Canada
Mississauga Horse

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Militia."

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Synonyms within Context: Militia

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Combatant	Armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale; minuteman; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Militia

English words defined with "militia": appropriate ♦ Captain general, capture, conquer ♦ Milice, militiaman ♦ National guard ♦ Pospolite ♦ Regular troops ♦ S.O.P., S/N, SA, seize, Storm Troops, Sturmarbeiteilung ♦ take over, To call out, Trainband ♦ Uhlan ♦ Zaim. (references)

Specialty definitions using "militia": dangerous settlement ♦ Fencible Regiments ♦ Go it, Warwick! ♦ Heroes scratched off Church-doors ♦ Janissaries ♦ Regulars. (references)

Etymologies containing "militia": Trainband. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Militia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (campaign, military service, militia, warfare).

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Modern Usage: Militia

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It may be called the State Police, State Troopers, Militia, the Rangers or the Highway Patrol. (Highway Patrol; writing credit: Richard L. Adams; Ed Adamson)
Lyrics	Someone got excited, Had to call the State Militia, (TRAVELIN' BAND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) The race militia has got itchy fingers (UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT; performing artist: Rolling Stones)
Movie/TV Titles	U.S. Naval Militia (1900) New York Naval Militia (1899) Single Time Pennsylvania State Militia (1897) Double Time Pennsylvania State Militia (1897) Drum Corps and Militia (1897)
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Commercial Usage: Militia

Domain	Title
Books	Force 10: USA Vs. Militia (reference) Gangsters and Revolutionaries: The Jakarta People's Militia and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1949 (reference) Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat (reference) Manhunt: USA Vs. Militia (reference) Searching for a Demon: The Media Construction of the Militia Movement (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Sacra Militia (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Militia (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Militia

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Photo Album: Militia

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	An F-15 Eagle from the 159th Fighter Wing, Louisiana's "Bayou Militia," streaks across the Southwest Asia sky on its way to the "box" -- the area of southern Iraq below the 33rd Parallel. (P.; photo by Army Staff Sgt. Len Butler)..		Simpson's Hollow where skirmish occurred between US Army and Mormon militia on the Mormon Trail, Rock Springs Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz.
	Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in 1899, probably after Aileen's transfer to the New York Naval Militia. Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912). Credit: NAVY.		The nations bulwark. A well disciplined militia. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Much ado about nothing or a militia court-martial!!. Credit: Library of Congress.		'You may be the commanding general of Post 17 of the Grand Patriot Militia, but in this outfit you're the private who takes the garbage to the dump!' / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Militia try to disperse crowd. Credit: Library of Congress.		Band of the 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Drum corps, 8th New York State Militia, Arlington, Va., June, 1861. Credit: Library of Congress.		Naval militia at Fisher's Island, Capt. Miller in command. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: Militia

Author	Date	Quotation
US Constitution	1791	Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. (reference)
US Bill of Rights	1795	Amendment II. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Militia

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Militia

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Indonesia	In one incident in 2000, a 16-year-old from Java, who had joined the Laskar Jihad militia, was killed while fighting on Saparua Island, Maluku province. (references)
	Ethiopia	There is evidence that children as young as age 14 were permitted to join local militia units in an effort to keep them close to home and prevent them from attempting to join the regular army. (references)
	Somalia	Boys as young as 14 or 15 years of age have participated in militia attacks, and many youths are members of the marauding gangs known as "morian," "parasites," or "maggots." Even in areas with relative security, the lack of resources has limited the opportunity for children to attend school. (references)
Civil Liberties	Kyrgyz Republic	The rally concluded peacefully without interference from the large number of uniformed and plainclothes militia present. (references)
	Somalia	In the Qoryoley district, militia members reportedly created checkpoints along the river where residents obtain water and charged them to take water from the river. (references)
	El Salvador	The former militia members were demanding compensation for their service during the 1980-92 civil war, when they patrolled rural areas and informed the military about guerrilla movements. (references)
Economic History	Afghanistan	Abdul Rashid Dostam and his Uzbek militia in March. (references)
	Lebanon	In February 1989 'Awn attacked the rival Lebanese Forces militia. (references)
	Democratic Republic of Congo	In turn, these Tutsis formed a militia to defend themselves against attacks. (references)
Human Rights	Indonesia	The other two militia members still were at large. (references)
	Somalia	On June 22, two persons were killed in Mogadishu during militia fighting. (references)
	East Timor	In March 2000, militia members reportedly killed a villager near Maliana. (references)
Minorities	Nigeria	In November members of an ethnic Tiv militia reportedly attacked ethnic Jukun neighbors in Taraba State; there were reports that dozens of persons were killed and thousands fled their homes. (references)
	Rwanda	That genocide ended later the same year when a predominately Tutsi militia, operating out of Uganda and occupied Rwandan territory, overthrew that government and established the current Government. (references)
	Rwanda	The most recent and severe outbreak of such violence, in 1994, involved genocidal killing of much of the Tutsi population under the direction of a Hutu-dominated government and implemented in large part by Hutu-dominated armed forces called the ex-FAR and Interahamwe militia. (references)
Political Economy	East Timor	The SCIU has issued 33 indictments against 82 accused militia members. (references)
	Somalia	Police and militia committed numerous human rights abuses throughout the country. (references)
	Somalia	At year's end, the TNG had a 3,500-officer police force and a militia of approximately 5,000 persons. (references)
Political Rights	Somalia	In the Republic of Somaliland, a clan conference led to a peace accord in 1997. This accord demobilized militia groups, established a constitution and bicameral parliament with proportional clan representation, and elected a president and vice president from a slate of candidates. (references)
	Czech Republic	The 1991 Lustration (vetting) Law, continued to bar many former Communist Party officials, members of the People's Militia and suspected secret police collaborators from holding a wide range of elective and appointive offices, including senior appointive positions in the Government state-owned companies, academia, and the media. (references)
	Ukraine	A representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe declared that the elections were "far from fair and democratic." OSCE observers noted that unauthorized persons, including SBU officers, were present in polling stations, especially during the runoff election; they also stated that they had received reports of militia involvement in campaigning. (references)
Worker Rights	Ukraine	NGO's reported that local militia and border guards received bribes in return for ignoring trafficking. (references)
	Russia	The law bans strikes in the railway and air traffic sector, at nuclear power stations, and by members of the military, militia, government agencies, and disaster assistance organizations. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Militia

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	With the review of our Army establishment is naturally connected that of the militia.
John Adams	1797-1801	A naval power, next to the militia, is the natural defense of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Should any improvement occur in the militia system, that will be always seasonable.
James Madison	1809-1817	An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.
James Monroe	1817-1825	Of the virtue of the people and of the heroic exploits of the Army, the Navy, and the militia I need not speak.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	There are laws establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States and for arming and equipping its whole body.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	But a more efficient organization of our militia system is essential to that security which is one of the principal objects of all governments.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Militia

"Militia" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Militia" is used about 443 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (common)	100%	443	13,068

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Militia

Expression using "militia": militia man. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "militia": militia-controlled, militia-operated.
	Ending with "militia": cadre-militia.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Militia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
militia	146	colonial militia	4
militia group	52	jersey militia naval new	4
metal militia	44	missouri militia	4
michigan militia	33	indiana militia	4
militia of montana	18	north carolina militia	4
texas militia	14	militia revolutionary war	4
virginia militia	10	cs download militia	4
militia mollys	10	county militia westmoreland	3
militia movement	9	civil militia war	3
group militia record	8	metal militia powerlifting	3
california militia	7	christian militia	3
anti militia robot	6	militia password revealer	3
georgia militia	6	militia tennessee	3
militia naval	6	militia soul	3
immaculata militia	5	militia watchdog	3
florida militia	5	ohio militia	3
arts fine militia	5	us militia	3
militia record	5	equipment militia	3
canadian militia	5	militia pa	3
militia regulated well	4	captain eatons illinois militia	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Militia

Language		Translations for "militia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		milici. (various references)

Arabic		‏ميليشيا, ‏مليشيا, ‏جيش مؤقت, ‏جيش شعبي. (various references)

Bulgarian		войска (army, array, militaries, power, soldiery, troops), народно опълчение, милиция, запасна армия. (various references)

Chinese		民兵 (people's militia). (various references)

Czech		milice. (various references)

Dutch		weerkorps. (various references)

Farsi		مجاهدین , جنگجویان غیرنظامی , امنیه . (various references)

Finnish		miliisi (militiaman). (various references)

French		milice. (various references)

German		miliz (police), bürgerwehr (citizens guard, civic guard, middle-class militia). (various references)

Greek		εθνοφυλακή. (various references)

Hebrew		מיליצי�". (various references)

Hungarian		milícia (home reserve). (various references)

Indonesian		milisi, wamil. (various references)

Italian		milizia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		民兵 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		み�"ぺい. (various references)

Korean		민병대. (various references)

Pig Latin		ilitiamay

Portuguese		pugnar (struggle, wrestle). (various references)

Romanian		miliţie, oaste de strânsurã. (various references)

Russian		милиция. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		milicija (police, police force, police office), narodna vojska. (various references)

Spanish		milicia. (various references)

Swedish		milis, lantvärn. (various references)

Turkish		milis, yedek asker. (various references)

Turkmen		milisiяa (r). (various references)

Ukranian		міліція. (various references)

Vietnamese		dân quân (fencible). (various references)

Welsh		cartreflu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Militia

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	militia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Militia

Language	Date	Source	Job Chapter 7, Verse 1
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Poteron ouci peirathrion estin o bioV anqrwpou epi thV ghV kai wsper misqiou auqhmerinou h zwh autou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Militia est vita hominis super terram et sicut dies mercennarii dies eius
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Militia

Language	Job Chapter 7, Verse 1
Albanian	"A nuk kryen vallë një punë të rëndë njeriu mbi tokë dhe ditët e tij a nuk janë si ditët e një argati?
Cebuano	¶ Ang tawo wala bay panahon sa pag-alagad diha ibabaw sa yuta? Dili ba ang iyang mga adlaw sama sa mga adlaw sa usa ka sinuholan?
Chinese	人在世上豈無爭戰麼．他的日子不像雇工人的日子麼。
Croatian	Nije l' vojska život èovjekov na zemlji? Ne provodi l' dane poput najamnika?
Danish	Har Mennesket på Jord ej Krigerkår? Som en Daglejers er hans Dage.
Dutch	Heeft niet de mens een strijd op de aarde, en zijn zijn dagen niet als de dagen des dagloners?
Finnish	"Eikö ihmisen olo maan päällä ole sotapalvelusta, eivätkö hänen päivänsä ole niinkuin palkkalaisen päivät?
French	Le sort de l`homme sur la terre est celui d`un soldat, Et ses jours sont ceux d`un mercenaire.
German	Muß nicht der Mensch immer im Streit sein auf Erden, und sind seine Tage nicht wie eines Tagelöhners?
Haitian Creole	¶ Lavi yon nonm sou latè, se tankou sèvis militè l'ap fè. Li tankou moun k'ap vann jounen!
Hungarian	Nem rabszolga élete van-é az embernek a földön, és az õ napjai nem olyanok-é, mint a béresnek napjai?
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Manusia itu seperti dipaksa berjuang; hidupnya berat seperti hidup seorang upahan;
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bahwasanya hal manusia di atas bumi ini seperti orang perang adanya dan hari hidupnyapun seperti hari orang upahan.
Italian	Non ha forse un duro lavoro l'uomo sulla terra e i suoi giorni non sono come quelli d'un mercenario?
Maori	¶ He teka ranei kua takoto he pakanga mo te tangata i runga i te whenua, he rite ano ona ra ki nga ra o te kaimahi?
Norwegian	Er ikke et menneskes liv på jorden en krigstjeneste, og hans dager som en dagarbeiders dager?
Portuguese	Porventura não tem o homem duro serviço sobre a terra? E não são os seus dias como os do jornaleiro?
Rumanian	Soarta omului pe pqmknt este ca a unui ostaw, wi zilele lui sknt ca ale unui muncitor cu ziua.
Russian	оЕ П� ТЕ�"ЕМЕОП МЙ ЮЕМПЧЕЛХ ЧТЕНС ОБ ЪЕНМЕ, Й �"ОЙ ЕЗП ОЕ ФП ЦЕ МЙ, ЮФП �"ОЙ ОБЕНОЙЛБ?
Spanish	¿Acaso no es una milicia lo que tiene el hombre en la tierra? ¿No son sus días como los días de un asalariado?
Swedish	Job avslutar sitt svar på Elifas' första tal, i det han vänder sig till Gud med klagan över människolivets vedermöda och över sitt eget tröstlösa elände.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Militia

Derivations
	Words beginning with "militia": militiaman, militiamen, militias. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Militia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amicitiae, biliti, Ciclitira, Majithia, Malaita, malatia, Malietoa, Malita, malitia, Malizia, Melita, mellifica, mellitic, Mellotlie, Mellottie, Melottie, Milici, milicia, milisha, milita, milites, militiae, militis, militus, Millikin, millinia, millitia, Milloshi, milti, miluji, Mlita, mullertii, multifit, multimax, multiway, myelitis, nilotica. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Militia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-i-i-l-m-t"
	-2 letters: limit, litai, milia.
	-3 letters: alit, ilia, lati, lima, mail, malt, milt, tail, tali.
	-4 letters: ail, aim, ait, alt, ami, lam, lat, lit, mat, mil, tam, til.
	-5 letters: ai, al, am, at, it, la, li, ma, mi, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-i-i-l-m-t"
	+1 letter: militias.
	+2 letters: laminitis, militaria, miticidal.
	+3 letters: amiability, familistic, illuminati, inimitable, inimitably, initialism, limitation, limitative, militaries, militarily, militarise, militarism, militarist, militarize, militating, militiaman, militiamen, minimalist, similarity.
	+4 letters: amicability, animalistic, animalities, antielitism, antimissile, bioclimatic, criminality, dissimilate, domiciliate, eliminating, elimination, eliminative, familiarity, humiliating, humiliation, illimitable, illimitably, imitatively, immitigable, immitigably, imperialist, implicating, implication, implicative, impolitical, infantilism, initialisms, laminitises, limitations, mailability, malignities, militancies, militarised, militarises, militarisms, militarists, militarized, militarizes, minimalists, ministerial, primalities, sillimanite, vigilantism.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Militia

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 6C 69 74 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-- .. .-.. .. - .. .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 006C 0069 0074 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47757875867567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Historic

9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency

13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient

17. Bible Trace
18. Derivations
19. Anagrams
20. Orthography

21. Bibliography

Note to the press & webmasters - this dictionary can be linked, indexed, or referred to using the following non-English expressions:
woordeboek, fjalor, ‏معجم, ‏قاموس, diccionariu, речник, diccionari, diksyonario, diksinario, 字典, gérlyver, slovník, ordbog, woordenboek, shimiyuc p'anca, orðabók, orðbók, dictionnaire, wurdboek, wörterbuch, λεξικό, אוצר מילים, szótár, uqausiit tukingit, dizionario, 字引 , じい, じびき, じて�", ディクショナリー , じり�", じしょ, �'�"かい, ディクショナリ , 사� �, dizionari, recnik, fockleyr, dikshonario, słownik, dicionário, dicţionar, dicziunari, словарь, lolomi fefiloi, foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan, pukuntau, leksikon, rečnik, vocabbulariu, diccionario, sí-chazamagâma, ordbok, lexikon, พจนานุกรม, sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, словник, довідник, có tính chất sách vở, geirlyfr, geiriadur, for dictionary;
definisie, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, 定義 , 定义, definice, deskriptordefinition, definitie, määritelmä, définition, ορισμός, �"�'�"ר�", �"�'בל�", meghatározás, definíció, definizione, 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ�'ドロ酢酸 , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, � �의, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght, definishon, definição, definiţie, determinare, definire, определение, definicija, definición, definition, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, diffiniad, darnodiad, for definition;
vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור�'מ� ות, תר�'ום, �"עתק�", �"עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい�"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, �"うどく, ほ�"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ�"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th� nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation;
Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, 阿�"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알�"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian;
Arabies, arabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, � าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic;
Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保� 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, �'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian;
Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита�"ць, for Chinese;
Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체�", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, �"ול� �"י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란�"�, Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน�"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน�"์, � รรยา, alman, eş

Militia

Definition: Militia

Militia

Noun

Synonym: Militia

Specialty Definition: Militia

Synonyms within Context: Militia

Combatant

Crosswords: Militia

Modern Usage: Militia

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Militia

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Image Slideshow: Militia

Photos:Militia

Illustrations:Militia

Photo Album: Militia

Historic Usage: Militia

US Constitution

US Bill of Rights

Use in Literature: Militia

Emma

Austen, Jane

Non-Fiction Usage: Militia

Speeches: Militia

George Washington

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Usage Frequency: Militia

Expression: Militia

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Militia

Modern Translations: Militia

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Dutch

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukranian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Militia

Bible Trace: Militia

Matched Bible Translations: Militia

Derivations & Misspellings: Militia

Photos:
Militia

Illustrations:
Militia