military service (uncountable)
- Service in an army or other military organisation, whether as a chosen job (volunteering) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription).
- Synonym: service (elliptically synonymous)
- Antonym: non-military service
- Hypernyms: national service, < public service
- Hyponym: knight service
The virtues of national service, including military service, were extolled in the evening's presentations.
service in an army
- Afrikaans: militêre diens sg
- Arabic: خِدْمَة عَسْكَرِيَّة f (ḵidma ʕaskariyya)
- Azerbaijani: əsgərlik (informal), hərbi qulluq (formal), hərbi xidmət
- Basque: soldadutza sg, gudaritza sg, soldadugoa sg, soldaduska sg
- Belarusian: вайско́вая слу́жба f (vajskóvaja slúžba), вае́нная слу́жба f (vajénnaja slúžba)
- Bulgarian: вое́нна слу́жба f (voénna slúžba)
- Catalan: servei militar m, mili (ca) f (colloquial)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏲᏍᎩᎢ (aniyosgii)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 兵役 (bing1 jik6)
- Hokkien: 兵役 (zh-min-nan) (peng-e̍k)
- Mandarin: 兵役 (zh) (bīngyì)
- Czech: vojenská služba f, vojna (cs) f
- Danish: militærtjeneste c
- Dutch: militaire dienst n, legerdienst (nl) n
- Esperanto: militservo
- Estonian: sõjaväeteenistus
- Finnish: asepalvelus (fi), varusmiespalvelus (fi)
- French: service militaire (fr) m
- Galician: servizo militar f, mili (gl) f (colloquial)
- German: Militärdienst (de) m, Wehrdienst (de) m, Kriegsdienst (de) m
- Greek: θητεία (el) f (thiteía), στρατιωτική υπηρεσία f (stratiotikí ypiresía), στρατιωτική θητεία f (stratiotikí thiteía)
- Hungarian: katonai szolgálat (hu)
- Irish: seirbhís mhíleata f, seirbhís airm f (army)
- Italian: servizio militare m
- Japanese: 兵役 (ja) (へいえき, heieki), 軍役 (ja) (ぐんえき, gun'eki), 軍役 (ja) (ぐんやく, gun'yaku)
- Kazakh: әскери қызмет (äskeri qyzmet)
- Korean: 병역(兵役) (ko) (byeong'yeok)
- Latin: mīlitia f
- Latvian: karadienests m
- Lithuanian: karo tarnyba f, kariuomenė (lt) f
- Macedonian: воена служба f (voena služba)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цэргийн албан (cergiin alban)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: militærtjeneste m
- Persian: خدمت نظامی (xedmat-e nezâmi), خدمت سربازی (xedmat-e sarbâzi)
- Polish: służba wojskowa (pl) f, żołnierka (pl) f
- Portuguese: serviço militar (pt) m
- Romanian: serviciu militar (ro) n
- Russian: вое́нная слу́жба f (vojénnaja slúžba), во́инская слу́жба f (vóinskaja slúžba)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: војна служба f
- Roman: vojna služba f
- Slovak: vojenská služba f
- Slovene: vojaška služba f
- Spanish: servicio militar m, mili (es) f (colloquial), colimba f, chiri (es) f
- Swedish: militärtjänstgöring c, militärtjänst (sv) c, lumpen (sv) c (informal)
- Tagalog: hukbuhing lingkod
- Tajik: хизмати низомӣ (xizmat-i nizomi), хизмати сарбозӣ (xizmat-i sarbozi)
- Turkish: askerlik hizmeti (tr)
- Ukrainian: військо́ва слу́жба (uk) f (vijsʹkóva slúžba)
- Volapük: dünäd (vo)
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