arsenal

[ ahr-suh-nl, ahrs-nuhl ]
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noun
  1. a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.

  2. a government establishment where military equipment or munitions are manufactured.

  1. a collection or supply of weapons or munitions.

  2. a collection or supply of anything; store: He came to the meeting with an impressive arsenal of new research data.

Origin of arsenal

1
1500–10; (<Middle French ) <Italian arzanale<Upper Italian (Venetian ) arzanà dockyard <Arabic dār ṣināʿah workshop (literally, house of handwork); initial d probably taken as a form of the preposition di from

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arsenal

/ (ˈɑːsənəl) /


noun
  1. a store for arms, ammunition, and other military items

  2. a workshop or factory that produces munitions

  1. a store of anything regarded as weapons: an arsenal of destructive arguments

Origin of arsenal

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C16: from Italian arsenale dockyard, from the original Venetian arsenal dockyard and naval store, from Arabic dār sīn`ah, from dār house + sīn`ah manufacture

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