Arsenal Definition
ärsə-nəl
arsenals
noun
arsenals
A governmental establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel.
American Heritage
A place for making or storing weapons and other munitions.
Webster's New World
A stock of weapons.
American Heritage
A nation's or military organization's stockpile of weapons.
Webster's New World
A store or supply.
An arsenal of retorts.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Arsenal
Noun
Singular:
arsenal
Plural:
arsenalsOrigin of Arsenal
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Italian arsenale from obsolete arzanale, darsena from Arabic aṭ-ṭinā‘a manufacture, industry and dār aṭ-ṭinā‘a place of manufacture dār house (from dāra to turn, revolve dwr in Semitic roots) al- the ṭinā‘a manufacture (from ṭana‘a to make ṭnʕ in Semitic roots)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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