lightly armoured

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   equipped with armor heavy enough to provide protection against fire from light arms

   Synonymslightly armored

   Similararmored

Questions about lightly armoured

What does lightly armoured mean?

lightly armoured means "equipped with armor heavy enough to provide protection against fire from light arms".

What is another word for lightly armoured?

Close synonyms include lightly armored. 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 lightly armoured a common word?

lightly armoured 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.