ARMAMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armament mean? 

• ARMAMENT (noun)
  The noun ARMAMENT has 2 senses:

1. weaponry used by military or naval force

2. the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war

  Familiarity information: ARMAMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMAMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weaponry used by military or naval force

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("armament" is a kind of...):

arms; implements of war; munition; weaponry; weapons system (weapons considered collectively)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armament"):

armory; armoury; arsenal (all the weapons and equipment that a country has)

artillery; gun; heavy weapon; ordnance (large but transportable armament)

broadside (all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship)

launcher; rocket launcher (armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket)

munition; ordnance; ordnance store (military supplies)

torpedo (armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target)

Derivation:

arm (supply with arms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

armament; arming; equipping

Hypernyms ("armament" is a kind of...):

militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armament"):

outfitting (the act of renovating and fitting out a ship)

rearmament (the act of arming again)

Antonym:

disarmament (act of reducing or depriving of arms)

Derivation:

arm (prepare oneself for a military confrontation)

 Context examples 

I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We looked at each other, and together moved out into the hall; we each held ready to use our various armaments—the spiritual in the left hand, the mortal in the right.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)