arms

Other forms of arms

plural

armses·

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.

Questions about arms

What does arms mean?

arms means "weapons considered collectively". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arms?

arms has 1 syllable: arms. In IPA it is /ˈɑɹmz/.

What is another word for arms?

Close synonyms include weaponry, implements of war, weapons system, munition, coat of arms. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arms a common word?

arms is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.