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
Topics War and conflictc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + militiamilitia + nounSee full entry Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘military service’, from miles, milit- ‘soldier’.