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billet noun /ˈbɪlɪt/ /ˈbɪlɪt/ jump to other results - a place, often in a private house, where soldiers live temporarily
- The troops are all in billets (= not in camps or barracks).
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting a short written document): from Anglo-Norman French billette, diminutive of bille, probably based on medieval Latin bulla ‘seal, sealed document’. The verb is recorded in the late 16th cent., and the noun sense, ‘a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer, usually a soldier’, from the mid 17th cent.; hence the current meaning.
billet verb /ˈbɪlɪt/ /ˈbɪlɪt/ [transitive, usually passive] jump to other results - + adv./prep. to send soldiers to live somewhere for a period of time, especially in private houses during a war
- The troops were billeted in the town with local families.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting a short written document): from Anglo-Norman French billette, diminutive of bille, probably based on medieval Latin bulla ‘seal, sealed document’. The verb is recorded in the late 16th cent., and the noun sense, ‘a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer, usually a soldier’, from the mid 17th cent.; hence the current meaning.
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