大 軍(たいぐん)

たいぐん

noun

large army; great host

1. large army; great host of troops

A very large military force. Used mainly in history, war stories, and news about past battles; also, loosely, a huge crowd of people descending on a place.

大軍(たいぐん)が攻(せ)めてきた。

A great army came to attack.

敵(てき)の大軍(たいぐん)に囲(かこ)まれた。

We were surrounded by a huge enemy army.

信長(のぶなが)は少(すく)ない兵(へい)で今川(いまがわ)の大軍(たいぐん)を破(やぶ)った。

Nobunaga defeated the Imagawa's great army with only a few soldiers.

Common collocations

大軍(たいぐん)を率(ひき)いる: to lead a great army
大軍(たいぐん)が押(お)し寄(よ)せる: a huge army surges in
十万(じゅうまん)の大軍(たいぐん): an army of a hundred thousand
敵(てき)の大軍(たいぐん): a huge enemy force

Watch out

大群(たいぐん): large swarm, large herd — same reading, but used of animals and insects (鳥(とり)の大群(たいぐん), a huge flock of birds); 大軍(たいぐん) is for soldiers

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