Definition of "martial" in inglés

adjective

1. (comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.

2. (comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.

3. (comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly.

4. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars.

5. (not comparable, astronomy, obsolete) Of or relating to the planet Mars; Martian.

6. (not comparable, chemistry, medicine, obsolete) Containing, or relating to, iron (which was symbolically associated with the planet Mars by alchemists); chalybeate, ferric, ferrous.

   • martial preparations martial flowers (a reddish crystalline salt of iron)

noun

1. (obsolete) A soldier, a warrior.

2. (astrology, obsolete) A celestial object under the astrological influence of the planet Mars.

3. (chiefly science fiction, obsolete) Synonym of Martian (“inhabitant of the planet Mars”).