arms
UK/ɑːmz//ɑɹmz/
arms noun: weaponry, weapons. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of arm.
Noun (1)
arms pl
- Weaponry, weapons.
- A visual design composed according to heraldic rules, normally displayed upon an escutcheon and sometimes accompanied by other elements of an achievement
- The arms of England are: gules, three lions passant guardant or.
- The Metropolitan Electric trams bore the three seaxes of the Middlesex arms, with a crown above the shield, on a blue circle.1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 382
Noun (2) capitalized: ARMs
ARMs
- plural of ARM
Also used as
arms is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of arm.
arms is also the plural of arm.
arms meaning in Kannada
arms in Kannada
- ತೋಳುಗಳು
Origin of arms
From Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 2.
See arm.
Words formed from arms
Phrases with arms
- arms up
- to arms
- arms kote
- arms race
- fire arms
- fore arms
- long arms
- port arms
- side arms
- tone arms
- yard arms
- arms kotes
112 more phrasesFewer phrases
- arms races
- crank arms
- glass arms
- hairy arms
- input arms
- lever arms
- lower arms
- order arms
- outer arms
- short arms
- small arms
- sword arms
- teeth arms
- under arms
- up in arms
- upper arms
- white arms
- arms bearer
- auntie arms
- cement arms
- manage arms
- moment arms
- output arms
- pitman arms
- radius arms
- rocker arms
- secure arms
- spiral arms
- arms bearers
- arms control
- arms dealers
- arms factory
- babe in arms
- call to arms
- canting arms
- control arms
- king of arms
- managed arms
- manages arms
- present arms
- reverse arms
- roll of arms
- secular arms
- secured arms
- secures arms
- take up arms
- took up arms
- arms and legs
- arms of flesh
- arms the lead
- babes in arms
- calls to arms
- coats of arms
- combined arms
- galactic arms
- kings of arms
- lay down arms
- managing arms
- righting arms
- rolls of arms
- securing arms
- shoulder arms
- slaps on arms
- stand of arms
- steering arms
- straight arms
- taken up arms
- takes up arms
- arms factories
- laid down arms
- lays down arms
- stands of arms
- taking up arms
- tuck shop arms
- with open arms
- assault at arms
- comrade in arms
- fold one's arms
- passage of arms
- resistance arms
- assaults at arms
- comrades in arms
- cross one's arms
- dinner lady arms
- dinner-lady arms
- folds one's arms
- laying down arms
- passages of arms
- arms to the teeth
- folded one's arms
- crossed one's arms
- crosses one's arms
- folding one's arms
- right to bear arms
- crossing one's arms
- lay down one's arms
- tuck shop lady arms
- with arms wide open
- laid down one's arms
- lays down one's arms
- get one's arms around
- got one's arms around
- in the arms of Murphy
- gets one's arms around
- laying down one's arms
- wrap one's arms around
- in the arms of Morpheus
- wraps one's arms around
- getting one's arms around
- wrapped one's arms around
- wrapping one's arms around
- right to keep and bear arms
Words that rhyme with arms
Questions about arms
- What does arms mean?
- Arms means weaponry, weapons.
- What is arms in Kannada?
- Arms in Kannada is ತೋಳುಗಳು. See Arms meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is arms?
- Arms is a noun.
- How do you pronounce arms?
- Arms is pronounced /ɑɹmz/ (US).
Words near arms in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: arms (page history and authors); ARMs (page history and authors); arms (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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