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say it: AHRM-band
armband is a noun meaning "worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning". It is pronounced /ˈɑɹmˌbænd/ — AHRM-band. It carries 2 recorded senses.
worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning
a band worn around the upper arm
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for armband come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.