trebuchet

Questions about trebuchet

What is another word for trebuchet?

It depends which trebuchet you mean. In the sense “an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles”, the synonyms are catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebucket. Across all 1 sense there are 8 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 trebuchet?

WordNet records no antonym for trebuchet. 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 trebuchet 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 trebuchet

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