armorial

1. 1.

   of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms

   “armorial bearing”

   heraldry

Questions about armorial

What does armorial mean?

armorial means "of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms".

How many syllables are in armorial?

armorial has 4 syllables and divides as ar-mo-ri-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is armorial a common word?

armorial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.