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weaponry

UK/ˈwɛp.ən.ɹi/US/ˈwɛp.ən.ɹi/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,135 of 15,258neutral

Weaponry is weapons taken all together. Modern weaponry, advanced weaponry, an array of weaponry.

It is a mass noun with no plural, and it names the equipment as a class rather than any one piece. The -ry ending collects things into a class, as in machinery, jewellery and crockery, and it always makes an uncountable noun.

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Definitions of weaponry

  1. 1nounweaponryWeapons taken all together.B2+

    “The army showed off its latest weaponry in a parade through the capital.”

weaponry is equipment.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    wepen

  2. English

    weapon

  3. English, today

    weaponry

From weapon + -ry. weapon comes from Middle English wepen. From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic wāpn, from Proto-Germanic wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European wēbnom. 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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weaponry in the wild

  • Lucasfilm defines the blaster as "ranged energized particle weaponry".

    Blaster (Star Wars)

  • Host Richard "Mack" Machowicz, a former Navy SEAL, reviewed and demonstrated the latest modern weaponry and military technology.

    Future Weapons

  • Illyrian weaponry played an important role in the makeup of Illyrian armies and in conflicts involving the Illyrians.

    Illyrian weaponry

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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