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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A governmental establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel.
  2. n. A stock of weapons.
  3. n. A store or supply: an arsenal of retorts.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A repository or magazine of arms and military stores of all kinds, whether for land or naval service.
  2. n. A public establishment where naval and military engines or warlike equipments are manufactured.
  3. n. Figuratively, a repository of any kind of equipment.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
  2. n. A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
  3. n. A store or supply of anything.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a place where arms are manufactured
  2. n. all the weapons and equipment that a country has
  3. n. a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms

Etymologies

  1. Italian arzenale, also French arsenal, from Arabic دار الصناعة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, "manufacturing shop"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian arsenale, from obsolete arzanale, darsena, from Arabic aṣ ṣinā'a, manufacture, industry, and dār-aṣ-ṣinā'a, place of manufacture : dār, house (from dāra, to turn, revolve; see dwr in Semitic roots) + al-, the + ṣinā'a, manufacture (from ṣana'a, to make; see ṣnʿ in Semitic roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. armory

hypernyms (4)

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  1. metalworks
  1. foundry
  1. armament
  1. military installation

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  1. fortress
  2. fortification
  3. storehouse
  4. barrack
  5. depot
  1. armory
  2. citadel
  3. hleb
  4. armament
  5. garrison
  1. workshop
  2. warehouse
  3. defenses
  4. factory
  5. outpost
  1. museum
  2. stronghold
  3. stockpile
  4. laboratory
  5. airfield
  1. dockyard
  2. academy
  3. fleet
  4. warship
  5. inventory

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  1. Kremlin
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  1. armamentary
  2. Harpers Ferry
  1. Brest
  2. armory
  1. arsenal
  2. Brown
  1. quiver
  2. sagittary
  1. Tower of London

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  • rolig The word was first used by Venetians in the early 12th century for their shipbuilding works. They themselves borrowed it from the Arabic dar as-sina'ah ("house of manufacture"). Jul 30, 2008

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