chain armour

Questions about chain armour

What is another word for chain armour?

It depends which chain armour you mean. In the sense “(Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings”, the synonyms are chain mail, ring mail, mail, chain armor, ring armor, ring armour. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of chain armour?

WordNet records no antonym for chain armour. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for chain armour come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of chain armour

• Full entry for chain armourAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chain armourWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.