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PARATROOPS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Infantry trained and equipped to parachute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("paratroops" is a kind of...):
foot; infantry (an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot)
Meronyms (members of "paratroops"):
para; paratrooper (a soldier in the paratroops)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)