arsenal

Other forms of arsenal

plural

arsenals·

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 arsenal

What does arsenal mean?

arsenal means "all the weapons and equipment that a country has". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arsenal?

arsenal has 3 syllables: ar-se-nal. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈɑɹsənəl/.

What is another word for arsenal?

Close synonyms include armory, armoury, armory, armoury, armory. 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 arsenal a common word?

arsenal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.