Regimen vs. Regiment: What’s the Difference?

Main Difference

The main difference between Regimen and Regiment is that the Regimen is a Wikimedia disambiguation page and Regiment is a military unit size.

• Regimen

  A regimen is a plan, a regulated course such as a diet, exercise or medical treatment, designed to give a positive result. A low-salt diet is a regimen. A course of penicillin is a regimen, and there are many chemotherapy regimens in the treatment of cancer.

• Regiment

  A regiment is a military unit. Their role and size varies markedly, depending on the country and the arm of service.

  In Medieval Europe, the term “regiment” denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscripted in one geographical area, by a leader who was often also the feudal lord of the soldiers.

  By the 17th century, a full-strength regiment was usually about a thousand personnel, and was usually commanded by a colonel.

• Regimen (noun)

  Orderly government; system of order; administration.

• Regimen (noun)

  Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.

• Regimen (noun)

  object

• Regimen (noun)

  A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

• Regimen (noun)

  Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.

• Regiment (noun)

  A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions. from 16th c.

• Regiment (noun)

  Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority. from 14th c.

• Regiment (noun)

  The state or office of a ruler; rulership. 14th-17th c.

• Regiment (noun)

  Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). 14th-17th c.

• Regiment (noun)

  A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. 14th-17th c.

• Regiment (noun)

  A regimen. 15th-19th c.

• Regiment (verb)

  To form soldiers into a regiment.

• Regiment (verb)

  To systematize, or put in rigid order.

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