arsenal
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈɑːrsənl/
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arsenal
- After years of neglect, the old arsenal was renovated to house modern military equipment.
- nuclear arsenal
- portion of the arsenal
Examples
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The soldiers retrieved ammunition and gear from the arsenal before heading into battle.
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The United Kingdom has lost control of its arsenal.
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Our officers found a whole arsenal at your shooting range, Mr. Ford.
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You gave him the key to the arsenal.
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Colonel, you are about to drop the largest conventional bomb in the arsenal, on US soil.
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There's an arsenal up in New York State, out of service.
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Fetch the riot gear from the arsenal!
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Edgewood Arsenal is where they made poison gas during World War ll.
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The Soviet Union threatened the United States with their nuclear arsenal and satellites flying overhead, and that got Congress to act and create NASA.
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The federal government admits that the arsenal is one of the Defense Department's most contaminated installations.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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5.4
A building where weapons and ammunition are kept and sometimes made
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7.4
A secure place on a ship or base where weapons and ammunition are kept
A place where the military keeps and gives out weapons and ammunition
A locked room on a ship where weapons like guns and bullets are kept
Antonyms
- Specialized
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5.5
To reduce or remove weapons and armies between countries to lower the chance of war
Compounds
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4.3
A collection of weapons and equipment that a country keeps for war or to protect itself
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Arsenal comes from an old Arabic phrase dār al-ṣināʿa meaning 'house of making' or 'workshop'. It passed into Italian as arzenale for big ship workshops, and that's why arsenal now means a place where weapons and military equipment are made, stored, or looked after.