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armoury

/ˈɑːməɹi/US/ˈɑɹməɹi/

armoury noun: a place where arms are kept, an arsenal.

Noun

armoury (countable and uncountable, plural armouries)

  1. (UK, also, figuratively) A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
    • Finally, there's also operational damage through impact energy from wheels hitting the rail. For that, Network Rail has another weapon in its armoury in the form of the Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) trains. These use geometry measurement and imaging to detect abnormalities such as missing...2026 March 18, Peter Plisner, “Tackling broken rails: the skills and technology improving safety”, in RAIL, number 1057, pages 30-31
  2. (UK) A collection of weapons and materiel.
  3. (UK) A place where arms are made.
  4. (UK) The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
    • (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, page 530
    • He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and[…]2020 April 28, Isabel Boavida, Hervé Pennec, Manuel João Ramos, Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume II, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN
  5. (UK) Heraldry.
  6. (UK, collective, noun, rare) A family or group of aardvarks.
    • A family of aardvarks, or an armoury of aardvarks, were regular visitors to the waterhole2025, Robyn Smythe, Arthur the Aardvark: The Story of a True Warrior
    • Jonathan Risbridger, senior zookeeper at Whipsnade Zoo, said: “Nacho and Tafari are a great addition to our family, or armoury, of aardvarks here at Whipsnade Zoo. Nacho is actually returning to Whipsnade, as she was one the first ever aardvarks to live at our zoo”.2025, Anna McConachie, “New digs for pair of burrowing aardvarks”, in Bedford Today

armoury meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

armoury in Tamil

ஆயுத சாலை, படைக்கலக் கொட்டியல், படைக்கலக் கொட்டில், படைக்கலத் தொகுதி

armoury in Malayalam

arms depot, arsenal, arms cache
ആയുധപ്പുര, വെടിപ്പുര, ആയുധാഗാരം, പടക്കലവറ, പടവീട്, അമ്പറ

armoury in Tagalog

place where arms are kept, an arsenal
sandatahan, taguan ng armas, armori

Forms of armoury

pluralarmouries
alternative formarmory

Origin of armoury

From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”). By surface analysis, armour + -y.

Words formed from armoury

Questions about armoury

What does armoury mean?
Armoury means a place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
What is armoury in Tamil?
Armoury in Tamil is ஆயுத சாலை, படைக்கலக் கொட்டியல், படைக்கலக் கொட்டில். See Armoury meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is armoury?
Armoury is a noun.
How do you pronounce armoury?
Armoury is pronounced /ˈɑɹməɹi/ (US).
What is the plural of armoury?
The plural of armoury is armouries.

Words near armoury in the dictionary

  1. armoursmith
  2. armoursmithing
  3. armoursmiths
  4. armourstone
  5. armourstones
  6. armoury
  7. Armoy
  8. armozeen
  9. armozeens
  10. armozine
  11. armozines

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: armoury (page history and authors); armoury (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); armoury (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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