ring armour

Questions about ring armour

What is another word for ring armour?

It depends which ring 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, chain armour, ring armor. 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 ring armour?

WordNet records no antonym for ring 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 ring 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 ring armour

• Full entry for ring armourAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ring 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.