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army is a noun:

  1. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air – and naval) operations
    "The army was sent in to quell the uprising."
  2. # used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces
  3. #: The army got a better share of this year's budget increase then navy and air force.
  4. # (often capitalized) within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions)
  5. #: The Fourth Army suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second Army, also deployed on the Western front.
  6. The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
    "The army opposed the legislature's involvement."
  7. A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
    "It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud."
  8. A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
    "Our house is being attacked by an army of ants."
  9. Any multitude
    "On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds."

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What type of word is army?

As detailed above, 'army' is a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: The army was sent in to quell the uprising.
  2. Noun usage: The army opposed the legislature's involvement.
  3. Noun usage: It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud.
  4. Noun usage: Our house is being attacked by an army of ants.
  5. Noun usage: On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of army are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of army, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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