Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: arsenal
IPA transcription: ['ɑɹsənəl]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: armory, armoury, arsenal
    Meaning: a place where arms are manufactured
  • Synonyms: arsenal, armory, armoury
    Meaning: a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms
  • Synonyms: arsenal, armory, armoury
    Meaning: all the weapons and equipment that a country has
Usage examples
  • Passepartout was furious at the delay they occasioned, and longed to discharge his arsenal of revolvers upon them.
  • We added a couple of shot-guns and several revolvers to my own arsenal, and piled the library table with cartridge boxes.
  • In our passage from this to the Cape, before we left Java, one of the convicts had jumped over board in the night, and swam to the Dutch arsenal at Honroost.
  • In three minutes or less, both of the arsenal buildings, containing nearly fifteen thousand stand of arms, together with the carpenter's shop, which was at the upper end of a long and connected series of workshops of the armory proper, were in a blaze.
  • The apparent object of this journey was that the new subjects might take their oath to Caesar, and the real object was to form an arsenal in Jacopo d'Appiano's capital within reach of Tuscany, a plan which neither the pope nor his son had ever seriously abandoned.
  • There Dillon collected many relics of the shipwreck: iron utensils, anchors, eyelets from pulleys, swivel guns, an eighteen-pound shell, the remains of some astronomical instruments, a piece of sternrail, and a bronze bell bearing the inscription "Made by Bazin," the foundry mark at Brest Arsenal around 1785. There could no longer be any doubt.