powder magazine

1. 1.

   a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored

   Synonymsmagazinepowder store

   Broaderstorehouse

Questions about powder magazine

What does powder magazine mean?

powder magazine means "a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored".

What is another word for powder magazine?

Close synonyms include magazine, powder store. 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 powder magazine a common word?

powder magazine 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.