a group of people who are not professional soldiers but who have had military training and can act as an army 民兵组织;国民卫队 He said he would call out the state militia if the rebels did not surrender. 他说如果反叛分子拒不投降,他就要出动州国民自卫队。 The anarchists started to form volunteer militias. 无政府主义者开始组建义勇军。 a highly armed militia 高度武装的民兵
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- armed
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Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘military service’, from miles, milit- ‘soldier’.