Word.ws English Dictionary

call to arms

call to arms noun: an appeal to fight or to engage in conflict.

Noun

call to arms (plural calls to arms)

  1. An appeal to fight or to engage in conflict.
    • This is a call to arms, will you stand beside me?
      This is our time to fight, no more compromising2007, “Halo”, performed by Machine Head
  2. (figuratively) An appeal to undertake a particular course of action or to support a specific cause; a call to action.

Forms of call to arms

pluralcalls to arms
alternative formcall-to-arms

Questions about call to arms

What does call to arms mean?
Call to arms means an appeal to fight or to engage in conflict.
What part of speech is call to arms?
Call to arms is a noun.
What is the plural of call to arms?
The plural of call to arms is calls to arms.

Words near call to arms in the dictionary

  1. call time
  2. call times
  3. call to
  4. call to account
  5. call to action
  6. call to arms
  7. call to mind
  8. call to order
  9. call to prayer
  10. call to task
  11. call to the bar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: call to arms (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “call to arms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/call_to_arms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.