Synonyms for armory

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ahr-muh-ree

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɑr mə ri

Définition of armory

Origin : "arms and weapons collectively," c.1300; see arm (n.2) + -ory. Meaning "place where arms are manufactured" is from mid-15c. Also used in a sense of "arsenal" (mid-15c.), "the science of heraldry" (late 15c.), from Old French armoierie, from armoier "to blazon," from Latin arma "weapons" (see arm (n.2)).

noun military building, usually for storing weapons

Example sentences :

Then the Dragon-King was frightened, and had the heaviest weapon in his armory brought in.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

They keep Troopers in the Armory and teach them how to fight.
Extract from : « Mutineer » by Robert J. Shea

So we come back home to Newyork and they lock us up in the Armory.
Extract from : « Mutineer » by Robert J. Shea

But when they'd opened up a gate like the double doors of an armory, and let us in, I forgot all that.
Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford

From my pocket I took the key which unlocked the door of the room we called the armory.
Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine

All slaves capable of bearing arms were to be equipped at once from the armory.
Extract from : « Nicanor - Teller of Tales » by C. Bryson Taylor

Northmour and I had each run to the armory and seized a gun.
Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various

The main floor, big as an armory, airless as a tomb, swarmed with dancers.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1915 » by Various

In the past it has been an armory of platitudes or a forecast of punishments.
Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann

Melanthios also was brought down from the armory and cast among the dogs to die.
Extract from : « Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca » by Homer

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