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English
Etymology
From Italian squadrone. See squad.
Pronunciation
Noun
squadron (plural squadrons) (abbreviated to: sqn)
- (obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square.
1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.
- (military, historical, army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
- (military) A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
- (military, navy) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer
the North Atlantic Squadron
- (military, air force) A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
- (US, military, U.S. Space Force) A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.
Derived terms
Translations
navy: detachment of vessels
air force: tactical unit of at least two flights
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Verb
squadron (third-person singular simple present squadrons, present participle squadroning, simple past and past participle squadroned)
- (transitive) To divide up into squadrons.