squadronn.

/ˈskwɒdrən/

Forms: Also 1500s squadrone, squadronne, 1600s Scottish squadroun.

Etymology: < Italian squadrone ( < squadra square), whence also Spanish escuadron, Portuguese esquadrão, older French squadron (scadron) and esquadron (modern French escadron).

I. Senses relating to a military unit.

†1. Military. A body of soldiers drawn up or arranged in square formation. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > square

squadron1562

square1591

hollow square1702

square battle1710

square body1711

square battalion1770

solid square1802

1562 J. Shute in tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks Ep. Ded. sig. *iv^v There shalbe a squadrone ordered and in the myddest of the same shalbe a voyde space throughoute the squadrone.

1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline ii. 156 The poore Swizers,..not beeing able to furnishe themselues with horse, were the first deuisers of the pike and the Squadronnes.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Squadron, a square forme in a battell.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Squadron,..a certain number of Soldiers ranged into a square Body or Battalion. This word is most commonly appropriated to Horsmen.

2. Military.

a. A relatively small body or detachment of men.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > squad, platoon, section, etc.

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platoon?a1547

maniple1574

squadron1579

squader1590

squadrant1614

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squada1657

peloton1702

section1913

1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 91 That euery Squadron or bodie of the watche haue theyr Armour..in readinesse.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 35 His armie conteined litle lesse then a hundreth squadrons of men at armes, accompting xx. men to a squadron.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 3 b A squadron of armed men in the field being readie to encounter with another squadron.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 66 Leaving his foot in two squadrons of 250 each, himselfe with the horse passed to Dundalke.

1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal v. 47 To have a long relation of Squadrons here, and Squadrons there: what is that but a dull prolixity?

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xx. 414 Thro' yon wide Host this Arm shall scatter Fear, And thin the Squadrons with my single Spear.

1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iii. 111 The mountain ecchoes with the wild affright Of flying squadrons.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 38 Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clans, or squadron tramping.

1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iii. 68 In one squadron set To fight the world's long battle.

figurative.1656 A. Cowley Pindarique Odes 58 in Poems All the full-charg'd clouds in ranged Squadrons move, And fill the spacious Plains above.

b. spec. A body of cavalry, usually composed of between one and two hundred men.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > regiment > division of cavalry regiment

turm1483

gendarmerie1551

standard1571

cornet1583

troop1590

Light Dragoon1700

squadron1702

ressalah1758

sotnia1863

1702 Mil. Dict. (1704) Squadron, a Body of Horse, the number not fixt, but from an hundred to two hundred Men.

1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 2 The enemy was broke through by the impetuous charge of our squadrons.

1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry iii. 45 Two or more Squadrons compose a Regiment. Squadrons are called 1st, 2d, 3d, &c. counting from the right of the Regiment.

1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry iii. 57 March past by Squadrons.

1893 Times 11 July 11/4 The march past followed, first in column of squadrons at a walk,..next at a canter by squadrons.

a. A division of a fleet forming one body under the command of a flag-officer; a detachment of warships told off for some particular duty. flying squadron: see flying squadron at flying adj. 4d.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squadron

squadron1588

squader1590

squadrant1614

squad1673

1588 D. Archdeacon tr. True Disc. Armie King of Spaine 17 Squadron of the Galeons of Portugall.

1588 D. Archdeacon tr. True Disc. Armie King of Spaine 19 There is in this Squadron 12 Vesselles.

1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. H4 In the first Squadron twelue great Galeons: Floate like twelue moouing Castles.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 271 [The kingdom of Naples'] ordinary squadron of gallyes are but 20.

1703 London Gaz. No. 3937/3 He ordered the Captain of the Nonsuch to stretch a-head of the Squadron.

1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 6 We judged this to be Admiral Pizarro's Squadron, sent out in Pursuit of Commodore Anson.

1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1834) I. 135 The troops destined to sail with the squadron under Admiral Rainier.

1835 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. IV. xxxii. 467 A squadron of nine sail of the line, four bombs, and five frigates, was despatched to the Sound.

1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 91 It was known that a French squadron was coming to America.

in extended use.1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 139 From Tago's bank, from Albion's rocky round, Commercing squadrons o'er the billows bound.?1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 13 Low down the horizon still lingered a few white flecks—the flying squadrons of the storm.

b. Air Force. A small operational unit in an air force, consisting of aircraft and the personnel necessary to fly them.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun] > unit

air squadron1904

squadron1912

flight1914

sqn1914

squadrilla1914

subflight1939

1912 Times 9 May 14/5 A party of officers and non~commissioned officers..are to leave the Aviation School at Farnborough on May 15... These will form the nucleus of two flying squadrons of the new Royal Flying Corps.

1913 Captain Sept. 1070/1 The well-found motor workshops which accompany an aeroplane squadron into the field.

1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 63 No. 1 Naval Aeroplane Squadron, B.E.F.

1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 38 It's..a blank shame that I should have to..join X Reserve Squadron.

1919 Daily Mail Year Bk. 46/2 The range of such raiding squadrons..tends to grow constantly from day to day.

1939 War Illustr. 29 Dec. 538/2 A Squadron in the R.A.F...is the basic tactical unit, a number of Squadrons forming a Wing, so many Wings a Group, and so to the Command.

1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 26 He was on a week's leave, and we were married before he went back to his Squadron.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 189/1 The main formations of the R.A.F. are the flight, the squadron, the wing and the group. There are three flights to a squadron.

1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xliv. 420 The main point, though, was the esprit de corps, and this was what Hartley had meant with his ‘last squadron in the Air Force’.

†4. A squad (of a ship's company). Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squad or crew for special duty

squadron1626

crew1692

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 7 Then deuide them into squadrons according to your numbers and burthen of your ship.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 38 These are to..doe all duties each halfe, or each squadron for eight Glasses or foure houres which is a watch.

a. A comparatively large group or number of people, etc.; an organized body of persons. Also const. of.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]

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conventc1426

an abominable of monksa1450

body1453

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congregationa1530

corporationa1535

corpse1534

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society1572

crew1578

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squadron1617

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core1622

lag1624

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platoon1711

cohort1719

lot1725

corps1754

loo1764

squad1786

brotherhood1820

companionhood1825

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crowd1840

companionship1842

group1845

that ilk1845

set-out1854

layout1869

confraternity1872

show1901

crush1904

we1927

familia1933

shower1936

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > group > specifically of people

eschelec1330

assortec1450

drift?c1450

flight1577

squader1590

squadron1617

group1711

platoon1711

squad1809

cuadrilla1838

clutch1908

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 116 They say that Christ with the squadrons of the Fathers, passed this way when hee ascended from Hell.

1640 W. Mure Counter-buff 96 That Esterne clyme..Where Squadrons of our Nation did abound.

a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. v. 222 Allelujahs, which..the Squadrons of those blessed Spirits sing.

1712 J. Warder True Amazons 26 They [sc. bees] send forth a Squadron to fetch in Honey.

1792 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 470 These measures had established corruption in the legislature, where there was a squadron devoted to the nod of the Treasury.

1824 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) I. 384 To join one or other of the numerous squadrons of dissent.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 484 The whole district will come, not in a squadron, but just when it suits them.

b. transferred. A multitude of some thing or things.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > large or numerous

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1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 99 Yet that is false which Fallopius tells us, that a great Squadron of Nerves is spread up and down the Basis of the heart.

1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions xii. 96 He has..First, a Squadron of Considerations, and secondly, a Pacquet of Advices.

1930 T. S. Eliot tr. ‘St.-J. Perse’ Anabasis 39 Squadrons of stars pass the edge of the world.

1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 759 What Steed did next, in the late 1950s, was to pension off his field hands and purchase a squadron of gigantic automatic corn harvesters.

†6. U.S. A division or ward of a town, community, or district. Obsolete.

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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in U.S.A.

hundred1621

town1631

squadron1636

county1662

precinct1713

parish1772

back county1775

district1792

metropolitan district1817

1636 in Cent. Dict. (at cited word)

1671 Town Records, Groton, Mass. in Cent. Dict. Agreed upon by the selectmen for the..calling out of their men to work, that is within their several squadrons.

1749 Town Records, Marlborough, Mass. in Cent. Dict. A committee of seven men to apportion the school in six societies or squadrons,..taking the northwesterly corner for one squadron.

7. A body of cardinals hovering between the main factions in a conclave. (Cf. squadronist n.)

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > cardinal > [noun] > collective > met for election > interest group within

squadron1670

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 161 He manag'd him~self so with his flying Squadron, that it gave no little disgust to the Crowns.

1906 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 346 Cardinal de Retz and Cardinal Azzolino were of the squadron.

II. Senses relating to a right-angled figure.

†8. A right-angled area, figure, etc.; a side of a square. Obsolete. Cf. squadrant n. 1.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > element of > side or face

squarec1400

squadron1588

face1625

1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 10^v They sell the earth within the wall, for so much a Squadro.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 153/2 About a quar. of a yarde in the squadrone therof.

†9. A square parenthesis-mark. Obsolete. rare.

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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > brackets

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parathesis1633

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bracket1750

circumflex1801

round bracket1847

curve1851

angle bracket1890

square bracket1891

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angled bracket1954

semi-quadratures-

1618 Worthington's Anker Christian Doctr. Printer to Rdr. 18 Because the holie Scriptures are very much cited in this Booke, I haue thought it better..to include them within two squadrons.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

squadron ball n.

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1862 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Aug. 139 The squadron which is to go down Channel on the day after the squadron ball.

† squadron company n. Obsolete

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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 49 When they enter the gates, they must deliuer their weapons to the Corporall of the Squadron company.

squadron cruise n.

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1894 Outing Sept. 477/2 These three gentlemen thoroughly understand the handling of a regatta and a squadron cruise.

squadron form n.

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1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. A3^v Our battels both were pitcht in squadron forme.

C2.

squadron commander n.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > leader or commander of specific unit

company commander1820

unit commander1890

squadron commander1907

patrol leader1908

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > officer in air force > squadron officer or commander

squadron commander1907

squadron officer1943

1907 R. Hermon-Hodge Let. 12 Jan. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. i. 640 In reporting on the Regiment in 1905 the GOC remarks ‘I thought the Squadron Commanders exceptionally well qualified for their positions’.

1915 C. G. Grey Tales Flying Services 67 Detachments under five Squadron-Commanders.

1916 A. Bennett in H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service Introd. 7 Major Charles E. Risk, Squadron Commander, R.N.

1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 15 Nov. 9/2 If the junior NCO's are not doing their job properly it does not matter how good the squadron commander is.

squadron leader n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > officer in air force > squadron leader

squadron leader1832

1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry ii. 20 The Squadron-Leader advances two horses' lengths.

1919 W. S. Churchill Let. 8 Feb. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1977) IV. Compan. i. 517 The ranks in contemplation are as follows:—Air Marshal: Air Commodore: Wing Commander: Squadron Leader: Flight Leader: Flying Officer or Observer.

1923 Daily Mail 27 Aug. 4 Squadron-Leader M... W...and Flight-Lieut. W. H. L...will both pilot machines.

a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ii. 13 He now found himself second in command of a squadron whose squadron leader had been a subaltern under him before.

1972 A. Price Col. Butler's Wolf i. 9 Squadron Leader Roskill is a colleague of mine at the Ministry of Defence.

squadron officer n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > officer in air force > squadron officer or commander

squadron commander1907

squadron officer1943

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > specific rank of woman officer

squadron officer1943

1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 244 Some of the squadron flank officers, who are otherwise disposed of.

1943 J. R. Williams Aircraftwoman Grey xiii. 146 I have asked Squadron Officer Hedley, the Group Officer, to call and see you.

1971 K. B. Beauman Partners in Blue iv. 72 The Squadron Officer was one of six of this rank appointed on September 27th... She had joined the Directorate in August.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	squadron
释义	squadronn. /ˈskwɒdrən/ Forms: Also 1500s squadrone, squadronne, 1600s Scottish squadroun. Etymology: < Italian squadrone ( < squadra square), whence also Spanish escuadron, Portuguese esquadrão, older French squadron (scadron) and esquadron (modern French escadron). I. Senses relating to a military unit. †1. Military. A body of soldiers drawn up or arranged in square formation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > square squadron1562 square1591 hollow square1702 square battle1710 square body1711 square battalion1770 solid square1802 1562 J. Shute in tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks Ep. Ded. sig. iv^v There shalbe a squadrone ordered and in the myddest of the same shalbe a voyde space throughoute the squadrone. 1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline* ii. 156 The poore Swizers,..not beeing able to furnishe themselues with horse, were the first deuisers of the pike and the Squadronnes. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Squadron, a square forme in a battell. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Squadron,..a certain number of Soldiers ranged into a square Body or Battalion. This word is most commonly appropriated to Horsmen. 2. Military. a. A relatively small body or detachment of men. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > squad, platoon, section, etc. glub1382 scalec1400 platoon?a1547 maniple1574 squadron1579 squader1590 squadrant1614 file1616 squada1657 peloton1702 section1913 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 91 That euery Squadron or bodie of the watche haue theyr Armour..in readinesse. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 35 His armie conteined litle lesse then a hundreth squadrons of men at armes, accompting xx. men to a squadron. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 3 b A squadron of armed men in the field being readie to encounter with another squadron. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 66 Leaving his foot in two squadrons of 250 each, himselfe with the horse passed to Dundalke. 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal v. 47 To have a long relation of Squadrons here, and Squadrons there: what is that but a dull prolixity? 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xx. 414 Thro' yon wide Host this Arm shall scatter Fear, And thin the Squadrons with my single Spear. 1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iii. 111 The mountain ecchoes with the wild affright Of flying squadrons. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 38 Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clans, or squadron tramping. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iii. 68 In one squadron set To fight the world's long battle. figurative.1656 A. Cowley Pindarique Odes 58 in Poems All the full-charg'd clouds in ranged Squadrons move, And fill the spacious Plains above. b. spec. A body of cavalry, usually composed of between one and two hundred men. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > regiment > division of cavalry regiment turm1483 gendarmerie1551 standard1571 cornet1583 troop1590 Light Dragoon1700 squadron1702 ressalah1758 sotnia1863 1702 Mil. Dict. (1704) Squadron, a Body of Horse, the number not fixt, but from an hundred to two hundred Men. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 2 The enemy was broke through by the impetuous charge of our squadrons. 1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry iii. 45 Two or more Squadrons compose a Regiment. Squadrons are called 1st, 2d, 3d, &c. counting from the right of the Regiment. 1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry iii. 57 March past by Squadrons. 1893 Times 11 July 11/4 The march past followed, first in column of squadrons at a walk,..next at a canter by squadrons. 3. a. A division of a fleet forming one body under the command of a flag-officer; a detachment of warships told off for some particular duty. flying squadron: see flying squadron at flying adj. 4d. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squadron squadron1588 squader1590 squadrant1614 squad1673 1588 D. Archdeacon tr. True Disc. Armie King of Spaine 17 Squadron of the Galeons of Portugall. 1588 D. Archdeacon tr. True Disc. Armie King of Spaine 19 There is in this Squadron 12 Vesselles. 1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. H4 In the first Squadron twelue great Galeons: Floate like twelue moouing Castles. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 271 [The kingdom of Naples'] ordinary squadron of gallyes are but 20. 1703 London Gaz. No. 3937/3 He ordered the Captain of the Nonsuch to stretch a-head of the Squadron. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 6 We judged this to be Admiral Pizarro's Squadron, sent out in Pursuit of Commodore Anson. 1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1834) I. 135 The troops destined to sail with the squadron under Admiral Rainier. 1835 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. IV. xxxii. 467 A squadron of nine sail of the line, four bombs, and five frigates, was despatched to the Sound. 1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 91 It was known that a French squadron was coming to America. in extended use.1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 139 From Tago's bank, from Albion's rocky round, Commercing squadrons o'er the billows bound.?1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 13 Low down the horizon still lingered a few white flecks—the flying squadrons of the storm. b. Air Force. A small operational unit in an air force, consisting of aircraft and the personnel necessary to fly them. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun] > unit air squadron1904 squadron1912 flight1914 sqn1914 squadrilla1914 subflight1939 1912 Times 9 May 14/5 A party of officers and non~commissioned officers..are to leave the Aviation School at Farnborough on May 15... These will form the nucleus of two flying squadrons of the new Royal Flying Corps. 1913 Captain Sept. 1070/1 The well-found motor workshops which accompany an aeroplane squadron into the field. 1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 63 No. 1 Naval Aeroplane Squadron, B.E.F. 1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 38 It's..a blank shame that I should have to..join X Reserve Squadron. 1919 Daily Mail Year Bk. 46/2 The range of such raiding squadrons..tends to grow constantly from day to day. 1939 War Illustr. 29 Dec. 538/2 A Squadron in the R.A.F...is the basic tactical unit, a number of Squadrons forming a Wing, so many Wings a Group, and so to the Command. 1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 26 He was on a week's leave, and we were married before he went back to his Squadron. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 189/1 The main formations of the R.A.F. are the flight, the squadron, the wing and the group. There are three flights to a squadron. 1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xliv. 420 The main point, though, was the esprit de corps, and this was what Hartley had meant with his ‘last squadron in the Air Force’. †4. A squad (of a ship's company). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squad or crew for special duty squadron1626 crew1692 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 7 Then deuide them into squadrons according to your numbers and burthen of your ship. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 38 These are to..doe all duties each halfe, or each squadron for eight Glasses or foure houres which is a watch. 5. a. A comparatively large group or number of people, etc.; an organized body of persons. Also const. of. 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Moryson Itinerary i. 116 They say that Christ with the squadrons of the Fathers, passed this way when hee ascended from Hell. 1640 W. Mure Counter-buff 96 That Esterne clyme..Where Squadrons of our Nation did abound. a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. v. 222 Allelujahs, which..the Squadrons of those blessed Spirits sing. 1712 J. Warder True Amazons 26 They [sc. bees] send forth a Squadron to fetch in Honey. 1792 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 470 These measures had established corruption in the legislature, where there was a squadron devoted to the nod of the Treasury. 1824 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) I. 384 To join one or other of the numerous squadrons of dissent. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 484 The whole district will come, not in a squadron, but just when it suits them. b. transferred. A multitude of some thing or things. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > large or numerous legiona1325 rout?c1335 multitudec1350 thrave1377 cloudc1384 schoola1450 meiniec1450 throng1538 ruckc1540 multitudine1547 swarm1548 regiment1575 armya1586 volley1595 pile1596 battalion1603 wood1608 host1613 armada1622 crowd1628 battalia1653 squadron1668 raffa1677 smytrie1786 raft1821 squash1884 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 99 Yet that is false which Fallopius tells us, that a great Squadron of Nerves is spread up and down the Basis of the heart. 1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions xii. 96 He has..First, a Squadron of Considerations, and secondly, a Pacquet of Advices. 1930 T. S. Eliot tr. ‘St.-J. Perse’ Anabasis 39 Squadrons of stars pass the edge of the world. 1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 759 What Steed did next, in the late 1950s, was to pension off his field hands and purchase a squadron of gigantic automatic corn harvesters. †6. U.S. A division or ward of a town, community, or district. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in U.S.A. hundred1621 town1631 squadron1636 county1662 precinct1713 parish1772 back county1775 district1792 metropolitan district1817 1636 in Cent. Dict. (at cited word) 1671 Town Records, Groton, Mass. in Cent. Dict. Agreed upon by the selectmen for the..calling out of their men to work, that is within their several squadrons. 1749 Town Records, Marlborough, Mass. in Cent. Dict. A committee of seven men to apportion the school in six societies or squadrons,..taking the northwesterly corner for one squadron. 7. A body of cardinals hovering between the main factions in a conclave. (Cf. squadronist n.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > cardinal > [noun] > collective > met for election > interest group within squadron1670 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 161 He manag'd him~self so with his flying Squadron, that it gave no little disgust to the Crowns. 1906 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 346 Cardinal de Retz and Cardinal Azzolino were of the squadron. II. Senses relating to a right-angled figure. †8. A right-angled area, figure, etc.; a side of a square. Obsolete. Cf. squadrant n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > element of > side or face squarec1400 squadron1588 face1625 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 10^v They sell the earth within the wall, for so much a Squadro. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 153/2 About a quar. of a yarde in the squadrone therof. †9. A square parenthesis-mark. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > brackets parenthesis1582 squadron1618 parathesis1633 brace1656 hooks1680 bracket1750 circumflex1801 round bracket1847 curve1851 angle bracket1890 square bracket1891 paren1905 angled bracket1954 semi-quadratures- 1618 Worthington's Anker Christian Doctr. Printer to Rdr. 18 Because the holie Scriptures are very much cited in this Booke, I haue thought it better..to include them within two squadrons. Compounds C1. General attributive. squadron ball n. ΚΠ 1862 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Aug. 139 The squadron which is to go down Channel on the day after the squadron ball. † squadron company n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 49 When they enter the gates, they must deliuer their weapons to the Corporall of the Squadron company. squadron cruise n. ΚΠ 1894 Outing Sept. 477/2 These three gentlemen thoroughly understand the handling of a regatta and a squadron cruise. squadron form n. ΚΠ 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. A3^v Our battels both were pitcht in squadron forme. C2. squadron commander n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > leader or commander of specific unit company commander1820 unit commander1890 squadron commander1907 patrol leader1908 society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > officer in air force > squadron officer or commander squadron commander1907 squadron officer1943 1907 R. Hermon-Hodge Let. 12 Jan. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. i. 640 In reporting on the Regiment in 1905 the GOC remarks ‘I thought the Squadron Commanders exceptionally well qualified for their positions’. 1915 C. G. Grey Tales Flying Services 67 Detachments under five Squadron-Commanders. 1916 A. Bennett in H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service Introd. 7 Major Charles E. Risk, Squadron Commander, R.N. 1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 15 Nov. 9/2 If the junior NCO's are not doing their job properly it does not matter how good the squadron commander is. squadron leader n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > officer in air force > squadron leader squadron leader1832 1832 Proposed Regulations Cavalry ii. 20 The Squadron-Leader advances two horses' lengths. 1919 W. S. Churchill Let. 8 Feb. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1977) IV. Compan. i. 517 The ranks in contemplation are as follows:—Air Marshal: Air Commodore: Wing Commander: Squadron Leader: Flight Leader: Flying Officer or Observer. 1923 Daily Mail 27 Aug. 4 Squadron-Leader M... W...and Flight-Lieut. W. H. L...will both pilot machines. a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ii. 13 He now found himself second in command of a squadron whose squadron leader had been a subaltern under him before. 1972 A. Price Col. Butler's Wolf i. 9 Squadron Leader Roskill is a colleague of mine at the Ministry of Defence. squadron officer n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > officer in air force > squadron officer or commander squadron commander1907 squadron officer1943 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > specific rank of woman officer squadron officer1943 1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 244 Some of the squadron flank officers, who are otherwise disposed of. 1943 J. R. Williams Aircraftwoman Grey xiii. 146 I have asked Squadron Officer Hedley, the Group Officer, to call and see you. 1971 K. B. Beauman Partners in Blue iv. 72 The Squadron Officer was one of six of this rank appointed on September 27th... She had joined the Directorate in August. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021). squadronv. Etymology: < squadron n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsquadron. rare. transitive. To form into, or as into, a squadron or squadrons. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > group > like spec. faggot1605 squadron1862 platoon1875 1862 D. Gray Luggie, etc. 19 By a furious wind Squadron'd, the hurrying clouds range the roused sky. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1562v.1862
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