turm

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noun

A group of people, especially a military unit of cavalrymen.

OriginMiddle English turmes pl ← Old French turme ← Latin turma →
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Meanings

nounturm (plural turms)

plural turms

  1. obsoleteA group of people, especially a military unit of cavalrymen.

    Thence to the gates caſt round thine eye, and ſee / What conflux iſſuing forth, or entring in: / Pretors, Proconſuls to thir Provinces / Haſting or on return, in robes of State; / Lictors and rods the enſigns of thir power; / Legions and Cohorts, turmes of horſe and wings: […]

    1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 81, lines 61–66

Origin

  1. Latinturma“troop, squadron, team”
  2. Old Frenchturme
  3. Middle Englishturmes pl
  4. Englishturm

From Middle English turmes pl, from Old French turme, from Latin turma (“troop, squadron, team”).

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APA

turm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/turm

MLA

“turm.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/turm. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “turm,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/turm.

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