Dictionary

armoury en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɑɹməɹi/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɑːməɹi/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”). By surface analysis, armour + -y.

Meanings

1. (UK, also, countable, figuratively, uncountable) A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
   • Finally, there's also operational damage through impact energy from wheels hitting the rail. For that, Network Rail has another weapon in its armoury in the form of the Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) trains. These use geometry measurement and imaging to detect abnormalities such as missing or defective fastenings. 2026 March 18, Peter Plisner, “Tackling broken rails: the skills and technology improving safety”, in RAIL, number 1057, pages 30-31:
2. (UK, countable, uncountable) A collection of weapons and materiel.
3. (UK, countable, uncountable) A place where arms are made.
4. (UK, countable, uncountable) The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
   • He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and[…] 2020 April 28, Isabel Boavida, Hervé Pennec, Manuel João Ramos, Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume II, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
   • (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory. 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, page 530:
5. (UK, countable, uncountable) Heraldry.
6. (UK, collective, countable, noun, rare, uncountable) A family or group of aardvarks.
   • Jonathan Risbridger, senior zookeeper at Whipsnade Zoo, said: “Nacho and Tafari are a great addition to our family, or armoury, of aardvarks here at Whipsnade Zoo. Nacho is actually returning to Whipsnade, as she was one the first ever aardvarks to live at our zoo”. 2025, Anna McConachie, “New digs for pair of burrowing aardvarks”, in Bedford Today:
   • A family of aardvarks, or an armoury of aardvarks, were regular visitors to the waterhole 2025, Robyn Smythe, Arthur the Aardvark: The Story of a True Warrior:

Forms

Deriveds

armourial

Relateds

armourer

Translations (54)

sw ghala ya silaha (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · hy զինանոց (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · rsk арсенал (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · ru оруже́йная пала́та (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · pl zbrojownia (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · fi vaakunaoppi (heraldry) · it galleria d'armi (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · bg арсенал (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · bo གོ་ཆའི་ཁང་པ (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · gd taigh-airm (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · bo མཚོན་ཆ་ཁང (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · pt armaria (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · tl taguan ng armas (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · pi yuddhabhaṇḍāgāra (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · ca armeria (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · it arme (heraldry) · ru цейхга́уз (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · sv rustkammare (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · fi asevarasto (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · la armamentarium (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · sq armëtore (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · it armeria (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · eo armilejo (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · rsk оружарня (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · af arsenaal (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · bo གོ་ཁང (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · ru арсена́л (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · mi whare huata (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · de Waffenkammer (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · de Waffendepot (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · pt arsenal (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · ota سلاحخانه (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · es armería (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · pl cekhauz (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · uk арсена́л (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · sl orožarna (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · de Rüstkammer (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · de Waffenlager (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · tl sandatahan (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · de Waffenarsenal (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · fi heraldiikka (heraldry) · no arsenal (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · de Wappenkunde (heraldry) · pl arsenał (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · bo གོ་མཚོན་བཟོ་གྲྭ (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · ang wǣpnhūs (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · fr armoiries (heraldry) · ru арме́рия (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · uk зброя́рня (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · bo གོ་མཛོད (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · tl armori (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · mnw တိုက်လဝဟ် (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · hu fegyvertár (place where arms are kept, an arsenal) · fr arsenal (place where arms are kept, an arsenal)