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Arsenal

//ˈɑːsənəl// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Arsenal Football Club.
Noun
  1. 1
    A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
  2. 2
    a place where arms are manufactured wordnet
  3. 3
    A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
  4. 4
    a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms wordnet
  5. 5
    A store or supply of anything.

    "Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution."

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  1. 6
    all the weapons and equipment that a country has wordnet
  2. 7
    Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship

    "He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work."

Etymology

From Italian arsenale, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”), from دَار (dār) + صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa).

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