artillery

1. 1.

   large but transportable armament

   Synonymsheavy weapongunordnance

   Broaderarmament

   Narrowercannonfield artilleryfour-pounder

   Part ofbattery

   Partsstock
2. 2.

   an army unit that uses big guns

   Synonymsartillery unit

   Broaderarmy unit

   Narrowerbattery

   military

3. 3.

   a means of persuading or arguing

   “he used all his conversational weapons”

   Synonymsweapon

   Broaderpersuasion

Other forms of artillery

plural

artilleries·

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 artillery

What does artillery mean?

artillery means "large but transportable armament". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in artillery?

artillery has 4 syllables: ar-til-le-ry. The stress falls on "til". In IPA it is /ɑɹˈtɪlɚi/.

What is another word for artillery?

Close synonyms include heavy weapon, gun, ordnance, artillery unit, weapon. 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 artillery a common word?

artillery 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.