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armaments

armaments is the plural of armament.

Meaning of armament

Noun

armament (countable and uncountable, plural armaments)

  1. 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
  2. All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
  3. Any equipment for resistance.
  4. The process of building up military capacity.

Questions about armaments

What is armaments the plural of?
Armaments is the plural of armament.

Words near armaments in the dictionary

  1. armamentarial
  2. armamentaries
  3. armamentarium
  4. armamentariums
  5. armamentary
  6. armaments
  7. Armand
  8. Armando
  9. Armandos
  10. Armanet
  11. Armanets

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