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Definition of Armory
1. Noun. A collection of resources. "He dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer"
2. Noun. All the weapons and equipment that a country has.
3. Noun. A military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms.
Generic synonyms: Military Installation
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
4. Noun. A place where arms are manufactured.
Definition of Armory
1. n. A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
Definition of Armory
1. Noun. Heraldry ¹
2. Noun. A place where arms are kept, an arsenal. ¹
3. Noun. A collection of weapons and materiel. ¹
4. Noun. A place where arms are made. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Armory
1. a place where weapons are stored [n -MORIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armory
Literary usage of Armory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Collections: Being a General Collection of Interesting Facts by John Warner Barber (1839)
"The principal US armory buildings are situated on the elevated table land eastward
... Most of the buildings connected with the armory, such as the arsenals ..."
2. Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January by Clarence Frank Birdseye, Robert Cushing Cumming, Frank Bixby Gilbert, New York (State). (1915)
"Every officer in charge and control of an armory shall be personally responsible
for the care and maintenance of such armory and for all city, ..."
3. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"CCCLXXVI, The Academy of armory, or a Storehouse of armory and Blazon. Containing the
several variety of created Beings, and how born in coats of arms, ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"... and saw one man come out of the bridge, and go *owards the armory gate; remarked,
... fired at him; the shot was returned by two men at the armory gate; ..."
5. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"At the left of the photograph can be seen the colonnade which connects Bancroft
Hall to the armory and which is symmetrical with the other colonnade ..."
6. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"COLONEL APPLETON—Gentlemen: I heartily welcome you to our Seventh Regiment armory.
I ask you all to join me in the toast of the evening, "The Hon. ..."