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# squadron

«squadron» in Mova's school dictionary: **a group of ships, aircraft or soldiers that fight…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (squadrons)

### meaning for a pupil

A squadron is a group of ships, aircraft or soldiers that fight together as one unit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squadron/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales and old stories of war, a named unit of ships or soldiers in a battle

### examples

- On the left hand of the second squadron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squadron/#x1)
- I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squadron/#x2)

### note

a squadron is a group, so you may count the ships in it, but the word itself adds nothing

### Trees and pragmatics

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