🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

स्वयंसेवी सेना

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Svayamsevī senā

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Volunteer Corps/ˈvɒl.ən.tɪr kɔːrz/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"स्वयंसेवी सेना ने कार्यक्रम का आयोजन किया।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A group of individuals who voluntarily come together to serve a specific purpose, often in a humanitarian or community service context.

    "The local volunteer corps organized a cleanup event at the park."
  2. 2

    A military or paramilitary unit composed of volunteers.

    "During the war, many joined the volunteer corps to support the troops."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'Volunteer' derives from the Latin 'voluntarius', meaning 'willing' or 'of one's own free will', which evolved through Old French into Middle English. 'Corps' comes from the Latin 'corpus', meaning 'body', used in military contexts to denote a group of people organized for a specific purpose.

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