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# martial

«martial» in Mova's school dictionary: **Connected with fighting or war** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (martial)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Connected with fighting or war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#m1)

2) «Martial arts» are fighting sports and skills from Asia and other places, such as karate, judo, kung fu and taekwondo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#m2)

3) «Martial law» is when the army takes control of a country instead of the usual government. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and hobbies it almost always comes in «martial arts»: children do karate or judo, earn coloured belts, bow to the teacher, and learn self-control and respect. In history lessons «martial law» and «martial music» appear in war times.

### examples

- My brother does martial arts after school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#x1)
- Karate and judo are martial arts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#x2)
- She got her yellow belt in a martial arts class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#x3)
- Martial arts teach discipline and respect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#x4)
- The general declared martial law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#x5)
- Martial music played as the soldiers marched. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#x6)
- A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martial/#x7)

### note

Spelling: «martial» (with «-tial», said «MAR-shul»); do not confuse with «marshal» (an officer) or «Martian» (from Mars). Martial arts are for self-control and self-defence, not for hurting people in the playground.

### In the corpora

- [There is a real Chinese martial art called Praying Mantis style, said to have been inspired by watching a mantis fight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/5/)
- [Judo and other martial arts teach students how to fall safely.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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