coat of arms

Questions about coat of arms

What does coat of arms mean?

coat of arms means "the official symbols of a family, state, etc.".

What is another word for coat of arms?

Close synonyms include arms, blazon, blazonry. 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 coat of arms a common word?

coat of arms 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.