plate armor

Questions about plate armor

What is another word for plate armor?

It depends which plate armor you mean. In the sense “specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire”, the synonyms are armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armour. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 plate armor?

WordNet records no antonym for plate armor. 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 plate armor 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 plate armor

• Full entry for plate armorAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for plate armorWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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