Usually means: Cavalry soldiers armed with lances.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word lancers:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. lancers: Merriam-Webster
  2. lancers: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lancers: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lancers: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lancer's, Lancers, lancer's, lancers: Wordnik
  6. lancers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lancers: Wiktionary
  8. lancers: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lancers: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lancers: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lancers: Dictionary.com
  12. Lancers (wine), Lancers (wine brand), Lancers, The Lancers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. lancers: Rhymezone
  14. Lancers: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. lancers: FreeDictionary.org
  16. lancers: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. lancers: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Dance (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lancers)

▸ noun:  A traditional dance for eight or sixteen couples, originating from a 19th century quadrille.
▸ noun:  The music for a lancers.

Similar:
quadrille, cotillion, square dancing, contredanse, pas de quatre, pastorale, cinque-pace, foursome reel, courante, galliard, more...

Opposite:
archers, infantry, foot soldiers

Phrases:
Royal Lancers, 17th/21st Lancers, Queen's Royal Lancers, 17th Lancers, The Peshawar Lancers, more...

Adjectives:
9th, free, 17th, 16th, polish, 5th, 12th, 21st, mexican, 6th, french



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Similar:
quadrille, cotillion, square dancing, contredanse, pas de quatre, pastorale, cinque-pace, foursome reel, courante, galliard, more...

Opposite:
archers, infantry, foot soldiers

Phrases:
Royal Lancers, 17th/21st Lancers, Queen's Royal Lancers, 17th Lancers, The Peshawar Lancers, 9th/12th Royal Lancers, 12th Royal Lancers, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, Bengal Lancers, 21st Lancers, more...

Adjectives:
9th, free, 17th, 16th, polish, 5th, 12th, 21st, mexican, 6th, french



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