All weaponry synonyms

noun weaponry

• arms — weapons collectively
• armaments — Armaments are weapons and military equipment belonging to an army or country.
• arsenal — An arsenal is a large collection of weapons and military equipment held by a country, group, or person.
• weapon — any instrument or device for use in attack or defense in combat, fighting, or war, as a sword, rifle, or cannon.
• ordnance — cannon or artillery.
• munitions — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
• aegis — sponsorship or protection; auspices (esp in the phrase under the aegis of)
• armor — covering worn to protect the body against weapons
• armour — In former times, armour was special metal clothing that soldiers wore for protection in battle.
• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
• bastion — If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended.
• bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
• buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
• citadel — In the past, a citadel was a strong building in or near a city, where people could shelter for safety.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• deterrence — Deterrence is the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
• dike — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
• embankment — A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
• fastness — a secure or fortified place; stronghold: a mountain fastness.
• fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
• fortification — the act of fortifying or strengthening.
• fortress — a large fortified place; a fort or group of forts, often including a town; citadel.
• garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
• palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
• parapet — Fortification. a defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification. an elevation raised above the main wall or rampart of a permanent fortification.
• position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
• protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
• rampart — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
• redoubt — Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).
• resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
• safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
• security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
• shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
• shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
• stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
• stronghold — a well-fortified place; fortress.
• trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• ward — (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
• warfare — the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war.
• ammunition — Ammunition is bullets and rockets that are made to be fired from guns.
• defense — the act or power of defending, or guarding against attack, harm, or danger
• defence — Defence is action that is taken to protect someone or something against attack.
• gun — Also called gin rummy. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand.
• hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
• heat — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.