单词 | honvéd |
释义 | Honvédn. Now chiefly historical. Originally: Hungarian volunteers, and subsequently all Hungarian troops, during the revolutionary war of 1848–9. Later: the Hungarian second-line formation within the Austrian army (1868–1918); (also) the Hungarian army (1920–48). Also: a member of any of these military forces, (now) spec. a private in the Hungarian army.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Hungarian Honvéd1849 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > special reserves or Territorial Army > foreign Honvéd1849 1849 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 10 Feb. 6/1 Many of the imperial troops had been brought in wounded, as also a great many Honved prisoners. 1849 Daily News 23 Apr. It is..a mistake to confound a battalion of honvéd with a battalion of national guard, the honvéd being, to all intents, regular troops. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 604/2 The Hungarian militia or ‘honveds’, as they are called. 1931 F. Eckhart Short Hist. Hungarian People vii. 192 At his [sc. Kossuth's] impassioned speeches, the Honvéds (Defenders of the Fatherland) assembled..round the standards of the King of Hungary. 1956 C. A. Macartney October Fifteenth I. i. 15 The Magyars did not mind taking commissions in the Honvéd, which..was a body not much more serious than our own militia of the day. 1976 N. F. Dreisziger in A. Preston & P. Dennis Swords & Covenants ix. 245 Some of these [Slav] officers ended up in the honvéd of post-1919 Hungary. 1983 J. Keegan World Armies (ed. 2) 256/2 Conscripts..Honvéd..No badge of rank. 2003 P. Jung Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I 1914–16 4 Honvéd were initially intended solely as home defence troops; however, in the 20th century they had become integral parts of the field army. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1849 |
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