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# lancers

«lancers» in Mova's school dictionary: **soldiers on horses who fight with long spears called lances** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural, lancers)

### meaning for a pupil

Lancers are soldiers on horses who fight with long spears called lances. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lancers/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales lancers are soldiers sent in great numbers by a king or a general

### examples

- The king sent five hundred lancers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lancers/#x1)
- The lancers rode out at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lancers/#x2)
- Ten lancers guarded the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lancers/#x3)

### note

a count of lancers is a plain count of soldiers; nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lancers» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lancers/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.