Join free

armoury

English

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

armoury

  • /ˈɑɹməɹi/ US
  • /ˈɑːməɹi/ UK

Where it comes from

From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”). By surface analysis, armour + -y.

noun armouries · armory

  1. UK, also, countable, figuratively, uncountable A place where arms are kept, an arsenal. Finally, there's also operational damage through impact energy from wheels hitting the rail. For that, Network Rail has another weapon in its armoury in the form of the Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) trains. These use geometry measurement and imaging to detect abnormalities such as missing or
  2. UK, countable, uncountable A collection of weapons and materiel.
  3. UK, countable, uncountable A place where arms are made.
  4. UK, countable, uncountable The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring. (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.
  5. UK, countable, uncountable Heraldry.
  6. UK, collective, countable, noun, rare, uncountable A family or group of aardvarks. A family of aardvarks, or an armoury of aardvarks, were regular visitors to the waterhole

Translations

Every language

noun place where arms are kept, an arsenal

Españolarmería
Kiswahilighala ya silaha
Portuguêsarmaria, arsenal
Françaisarsenal
DeutschRüstkammer, Waffenkammer, Waffenlager, Waffenarsenal, Waffendepot
Italianoarmeria, galleria d'armi
Русскийарсена́л arsenál, оруже́йная пала́та oružéjnaja paláta, цейхга́уз cejxgáuz, арме́рия armérija

noun heraldry

Françaisarmoiries
DeutschWappenkunde
Italianoarme

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"armoury." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/armoury. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

armoury. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/armoury

Chicago

"armoury." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/armoury.

BibTeX
@misc{armoury_2026,
  title = {armoury},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/armoury},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}