coat of mail

Questions about coat of mail

What is another word for coat of mail?

It depends which coat of mail you mean. In the sense “armor that protects the wearer's whole body”, the synonyms are body armor, body armour, suit of armor, suit of armour, cataphract. Across all 1 sense there are 5 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 coat of mail?

WordNet records no antonym for coat of mail. 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 coat of mail 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 coat of mail

• Full entry for coat of mailAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for coat of mailWhether 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.