Usually means: Mounted soldiers trained for combat.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cavalry: Merriam-Webster
  2. cavalry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cavalry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cavalry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cavalry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cavalry, cavalry: Wordnik
  7. cavalry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cavalry: Wiktionary
  9. cavalry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cavalry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cavalry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cavalry, cavalry: Dictionary.com
  13. cavalry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cavalry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cavalry (United States), Cavalry (disambiguation), Cavalry (film), Cavalry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cavalry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cavalry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cavalry: Rhymezone
  19. cavalry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cavalry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cavalry: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cavalry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cavalry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cavalry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cavalry: Miniature Wargaming Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cavalry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cavalry: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See cavalries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (military, usually historical, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
noun:  (military, countable) An individual unit of this arm of service.
noun:  (military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
noun:  (figurative) A source of rescue, especially in an emergency.

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