Ordnance

//ˈoɹdnəns//

Synonyms for "ordnance" (33 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (7)

artillery munitions a-weapons armament arms battery

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (10)

biological weapons cannon cannonry coast artillery conventional weapons deadly weapons field artillery flak heavy field artillery

Noun(1 words)

gun

Related words (16)

Noun(3 words)

heavy weapon munition ordnance store

instruments of destruction missilery musketry nuclear weapons side arms siege artillery siege engine small arms thermonuclear weapons trench artillery weapon weaponry weapons

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

1 entries

armament

Synonyms

2 entries

artillery munitions

derived

4 entries

Ordnance Survey ordie ordnanceman soft ordnance

derived from

1 entries

ordinance

related to

5 entries

ammunition artillery military unexploded ordnance weapons

Translations

43 translations across 16 languages.

Bulgarian

1 entries

артилерия noun (artillery)

Catalan

1 entries

artilleria noun (artillery)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

大砲 /大炮 noun (artillery)
軍械 /军械 noun (military equipment)

Czech

3 entries

artilérie noun (artillery)
výzbroj noun (military equipment)
výzbroj noun (arms and ammunition)

Dutch

1 entries

geschut noun (arms and ammunition)

Finnish

4 entries

ampumatarvikkeet noun (arms and ammunition)
sotamateriaali noun (military equipment)
sotatarvike noun (military equipment)
taisteluväline noun (military equipment)

French

1 entries

munitions noun (arms and ammunition)

German

3 entries

Artillerie noun (artillery)
Kampfmittel noun (military equipment)
Militärmaterial noun (military equipment)

Greek

1 entries

πυροβολικό noun (artillery)

Japanese

2 entries

大砲 noun (artillery)
軍用品 noun (military equipment)

Macedonian

4 entries

артиле́риски ору́дија noun (arms and ammunition)
артиле́рија noun (artillery)
муни́ција noun (military equipment)
у́бојни сре́дства noun (arms and ammunition)

Polish

3 entries

artyleria noun (artillery)
uzbrojenie noun (military equipment)
uzbrojenie noun (arms and ammunition)

Portuguese

2 entries

artilharia noun (artillery)
petrechos noun (arms and ammunition)

Russian

3 entries

артилле́рия noun (artillery)
артиллери́йские ору́дия noun (arms and ammunition)
боеприпа́сы noun (military equipment)

Spanish

4 entries

armas noun (arms and ammunition)
artillería noun (artillery)
municiones noun (arms and ammunition)
munición noun (arms and ammunition)

Turkish

3 entries

cephane noun (arms and ammunition)
mühimmat noun (military equipment)
mühimmat noun (arms and ammunition)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Unexploded ordnance is found every year in Europe.

Source: tatoeba (5393488)

The explosive ordnance disposal unit safely disposed of the unexploded bomb.

Source: tatoeba (5393729)

There are still thousands of tons of unexploded ordnance in Germany.

Source: tatoeba (6549887)

The group took on a challenge posted by the U.S. Department of Defense and successfully designed and built an underwater robot for locating submerged unexploded ordnance.

Source: tatoeba (11103819)

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