man-at-arms

1. 1.

   a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times

   Broadersoldier

Questions about man-at-arms

What does man-at-arms mean?

man-at-arms means "a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times".

How many syllables are in man-at-arms?

man-at-arms has 3 syllables and divides as ma-n-a-t-arms under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is man-at-arms a common word?

man-at-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.