military

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of members of the armed forces.
• adjective Performed or supported by the armed forces.
• adjective Of or relating to war.
• adjective Of or relating to land forces.
• noun Armed forces.
• noun Members, especially officers, of an armed force.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Having the position or character of a soldier: pertaining to soldiers; suitable to, characteristic of, or performed by soldiers; soldierly: as, a military man; a military deportment or disposition.
• Relating or pertaining to war. to the art of war, or to an armed force; adapted to or connected with a state of war; martial; warlike; belligerent: as, the military art; military glory; military history; military equipage; a military expedition.
• Warlike in method or practice; having relation to the usages or purposes of war; connected with or dependent upon the use of armed force: opposed to civil: as, a military despotism; military government; a military execution. Abbreviated mil., milit.
• Tactical, relating to the order and arrangement to be observed in the management of an army when it is to march, to engage an enemy, or to be encamped.
• Technical, including the composition, fabrication, and application of warlike machines, and the practice of military engineering in the erection of offensive and defensive works for the protection of an army, a city, or a country. This branch also comprises the topographical surveys, the building of pontoon and other bridges, the projection and construction of roads, telegraph-lines, railroads, etc., necessary to the operations of an army in the field.
• noun Soldiers generally; soldiery; officers of the army: commonly with the definite article: as, the occasion was enlivened by the presence of the military.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
• adjective Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war
• adjective Performed or made by soldiers
• adjective See Martial law, under Martial.
• adjective (a) An association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction.
• adjective tenure of land, on condition of performing military service.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
• adjective North America Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
• adjective Relating to war.
• adjective Relating to armies or ground forces.
• noun Armed forces.
• noun US, with the U.S. armed forces in general, including the Marine Corps.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
• adjective characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
• noun the military forces of a nation
• adjective associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians