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A thousand people agreeing to march before coffee.
means A large organized unit of soldiers, or more broadly, a strictly ordered and imposed system of routine or control.
from From Latin regimentum, 'rule' or 'system of government,' built from regere, 'to keep straight, to guide, to rule' — the same root that gives us 'regent' and 'direct.' It entered English through French in the late Middle Ages first meaning government or rule in the abstract, and only later narrowed to mean a specific body of troops organized under that rule. The verb 'to regiment,' meaning to force into rigid uniformity, followed naturally from there.
- origin
- from Latin regimen, meaning rule or guidance
- size
- roughly 2,000 to 3,000 soldiers depending on army
- as verb
- means to impose strict, rigid order
- structure
- usually split into battalions, then companies