Word.ws English Dictionary

munitionettes

munitionettes is the plural of munitionette.

Meaning of munitionette

Noun

munitionette (plural munitionettes)

  1. (UK, colloquial, historical) A female worker in a munitions factory, especially during the First World War.
    • Since they all had a slightly yellow tinge to their skin, he assumed they were munitions workers. Munitionettes, as the newspapers liked to call them.1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 119

Questions about munitionettes

What is munitionettes the plural of?
Munitionettes is the plural of munitionette.

Words near munitionettes in the dictionary

  1. munitioneer
  2. munitioneers
  3. munitioner
  4. munitioners
  5. munitionette
  6. munitionettes
  7. munitioning
  8. munitionment
  9. munitionments
  10. munitions
  11. munity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: munitionettes (page history and authors); munitionette (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: “munitionettes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/munitionettes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.