arms

/ ɑːmz /

plural noun

1. weapons collectively See also small arms

2. military exploits

   prowess in arms

3. the official heraldic symbols of a family, state, etc, including a shield with distinctive devices, and often supports, a crest, or other insignia

4. 1. to carry weapons

   2. to serve in the armed forces

   3. to have a coat of arms

5. armed and prepared for war

6. to stop fighting; surrender

7. military

   1. a position of salute in which the rifle is brought up to a position vertically in line with the body, muzzle uppermost and trigger guard to the fore

   2. the command for this drill

8. to prepare to fight

9. arm yourselves!

10. indignant; prepared to protest strongly

Word History and Origins

Origin of arms¹

C13: from Old French armes, from Latin arma; see _arm ²

Example Sentences

The group says on its website that it has a commercial bank called Prince Bank and that one of its real-estate arms is developing a 47-story tower in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital.

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Israel, he said, “has won all that they can by force of arms.”

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Much of Mr. Roberts’s movement for that quartet of dancers, despite some upper-body torsioning and unison pacings, presents repeated articulations for their arms, suggesting the flapping of wings, which grows monotonous.

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His comments came less than a week after it was disclosed that the Pentagon was withholding a shipment of arms earmarked for Ukraine.

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The German arms maker’s growth will be more skewed to the fourth quarter than previously anticipated, partly because that is when several tens of orders from the German government are expected to come, they say.

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