Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A splendid or striking array: a panoply of colorful flags. See Synonyms at display.
- n. Ceremonial attire with all accessories: a portrait of the general in full panoply.
- n. Something that covers and protects: a porcupine's panoply of quills.
- n. The complete arms and armor of a warrior.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A complete set or suit of arms, offensive and defensive; the complete defensive armor of any period, especially that from the fifteenth century onward, when all the pieces were of wrought steel and accurately adapted to their purpose: often used figuratively.
- n. A group or assemblage of pieces of defensive armor, with or without weapons, arranged as a sort of trophy.
Wiktionary
- n. A splendid display of something.
- n. Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories.
- n. A complete set of armour.
- n. Something that covers and protects.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.
- n. Any full set of elaborate attire, complete with accessories or accompanying paraphernalia; any elaborate special or ceremonial attire and equipment.
- n. Any impressive complete array.
- n. Any complete array of devices used in an endeavor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a complete and impressive array
Etymologies
- Greek panopliā : pan-, pan- + hopla, arms, armor, pl. of hoplon, weapon.
Examples
“Hasan a steed of the best and equipped him in panoply and weaponed him with goodly weapons.”
“I ` m going to go look up the word panoply or whatever it was.”
“The fact that Harlequin, Virtue and Pleasure are incorporated into the list suggests that the entire panoply is understood to be similarly fanciful.”
Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb
“Votes were passed for deposing the Four Hundred, and placing the government in the hands of the 5000, of whom every citizen who could furnish a panoply might be a member.”
A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest
“Social welfare" was defined as a panoply of expenditures, including health care, housing support, unemployment benefit, disability allowances, family support and help for job seekers.”
“It was just like a Hollywood movie and it was something that people in England have not seen for a long time and I don't think that anybody had had that kind of panoply of grandeur.”
“The Greeks, among other weapons (such as bow and arrow), military tools and machines which they were implicating in war, were using most often for a body to body combat swords and spears and possibly less often axes, and of course they were protecting their bodies by using a "panoply" of defensive tools and clothing.”
“The Doctor had spent the night in devotion, and came from his oratory clad in that celestial panoply which is proof against the terrors of military array.”
“In Greek society Since hoplites supplied their 'panoply' (in this context meaning his armour and weapons) from their own personal equipment, they needed to be sufficiently wealthy to afford this.”
“Meanwhile, he touted his office's "panoply" of anti-firearm measures such as seeking two-year mandatory sentences on carrying offenses and 10-year sentences for shootings.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘panoply’.
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Archaic
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 327 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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For Summer
analogous, prestidigitation, defenestrate, crux, supercilious, sunglasses, replete, foment, anthropomorphic, iota, intrinsic, prosaic and 29 more...
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please pass the ly
Words that end in -ly that are nouns.
Please do not include words with double ll, for instance: ally, bully, belly; or words that can also be adjectives, for instance: elderly, melancholy.contumely, family, supply, reply, anomaly, assembly, doily, fly, homily, lily, monopoly, panoply and 20 more...
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Favorite Words
Fun words that are interesting and arresting.
Ort, unctuous, panoply, defenestrate, palpable, ubiquitous, flagellate, serendipitous, epiphanic, constructivist, amuse bouche, sobriquet and 30 more...
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Tolkien's archaisms
sigaldry, moot, kine, fey, eyot, ghylls, gangrel, glede, ilexes, laved, niggard, league and 44 more...
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Armor
Armet, helm, helmet, panoply, mail, Armour, shield, targe, scutcheon, escutcheon, ancile, buckler and 4 more...
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pan-
all-inclusive
pan-African, pan-American, pansexual, pantheistic, pan-European, panoply, Pan-Asian, pangaea, pantheism
bashaba@mail.com asvab- display - an impressive array of assembled persons Mar 7, 2011
reesetee "On one level, this is just the low comedy of the profit motive: our finest techno-wizards and their beautiful machines wrestling with the meaning of ':)' so that some cellphone company can micro-target its fee increases. But Baker also, in effect, offers a counternarrative to the usual story about the digital revolution. While millions of ordinary citizens have been empowered to express their individuality with a panoply of new tools, a smaller number of people have been working out the most efficient ways to convert those individuals into numbers on a spreadsheet." -- They’ve Got Your Number, NYT, 10/31/08 Nov 3, 2008
abraxaszugzwang The Pixies original name was "Pixies in Panoply" Jan 28, 2007
quotato "It’s an impressive panoply of moonbat leftist self-loathing, exemplified by Republican political leaders holding hands with the Devil...." Jan 11, 2007