heavy weapon

1. 1.

   large but transportable armament

   Synonymsartillerygunordnance

   Broaderarmament

   Narrowercannonfield artilleryfour-pounder

   Part ofbattery

   Partsstock

Questions about heavy weapon

What does heavy weapon mean?

heavy weapon means "large but transportable armament".

What is another word for heavy weapon?

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

heavy weapon 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.