armament
/ˈɑː(ɹ)məmənt/
armament noun: a body of forces equipped for war.
Noun
armament (countable and uncountable, plural armaments)
- A body of forces equipped for war.
- Premier Raymond Poincaré, ever an arch militarist, took full advantage of last week’s war scare in the Belgian Parliament to trumpet through the inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments. While this propaganda was at its height, he announced to the Chamber that the...1927 February 28, “FRANCE: Poincaré’s Week”, in TIME, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2025
- All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
- Any equipment for resistance.
- The process of building up military capacity.
armament meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
armament in Hindi
- any equipment for resistance
- शस्त्र śastra, हथियार hathiyār
- the process of building up military capacity
- शस्त्रीकरण śastrīkaraṇ
armament in Tamil
- படைக்கலன், போர்த் தளவாடங்கள், போர்த்தளவாடங்கள், போர் எழுச்சிப்படை, கடற்போர்ப்படை, போர்க்கப்பல் தொகுதி
armament in Bengali
- body of forces equipped for war
- অস্ত্রসস্ত্র ostrośostro
armament in Malayalam
- യുദ്ധോപകരണങ്ങൾ
More languagesFewer languages
- armament in Arabic
- تَسْلِيح taslīḥ
Examples of armament in a sentence
- Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament.
- There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments.
- The armament consists of a torpedo tube, which is provided with five Whitehead torpedoes.
Forms of armament
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Origin of armament
From Latin armāmentum, from armō (“to arm”).
Words formed from armament
Questions about armament
- What does armament mean?
- Armament means a body of forces equipped for war.
- What is armament in Hindi?
- Armament in Hindi is शस्त्र (śastra), हथियार (hathiyār), शस्त्रीकरण (śastrīkaraṇ). See Armament meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is armament?
- Armament is a noun.
- How do you pronounce armament?
- Armament is pronounced /ˈɑː(ɹ)məmənt/.
- What is the plural of armament?
- The plural of armament is armaments.
Words near armament in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: armament (page history and authors); armament (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); armament (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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