plate armour

Questions about plate armour

What does plate armour mean?

plate armour means "specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire".

What is another word for plate armour?

Close synonyms include armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armor. 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 plate armour a common word?

plate armour 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.