ARMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armor mean? 

• ARMOR (noun)
  The noun ARMOR has 3 senses:

1. protective covering made of metal and used in combat

2. a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles

3. tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant

  Familiarity information: ARMOR used as a noun is uncommon.

• ARMOR (verb)
  The verb ARMOR has 1 sense:

1. equip with armor

  Familiarity information: ARMOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Protective covering made of metal and used in combat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

armor; armour

Hypernyms ("armor" is a kind of...):

protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armor"):

body armor; body armour; cataphract; coat of mail; suit of armor; suit of armour (armor that protects the wearer's whole body)

buckler; shield (armor carried on the arm to intercept blows)

Derivation:

armor (equip with armor)

armorer (a worker skilled in making armor or arms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

armor; armour

Hypernyms ("armor" is a kind of...):

force; military force; military group; military unit (a unit that is part of some military service)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Derivation:

arm (prepare oneself for a military confrontation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

armor; armour

Hypernyms ("armor" is a kind of...):

protective covering (the tough natural covering of some organisms)

• ARMOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equip with armor

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

armor; armour

Hypernyms (to "armor" is one way to...):

equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

armor (protective covering made of metal and used in combat)

 Context examples 

I should remember that coat-armor, seeing that it is but three days since I looked upon it in the lists by Garonne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shadowy effigies in armor stood on either side, a dead silence reigned, the lamp burned blue, and the ghostly figure ever and anon turned its face toward him, showing the glitter of awful eyes through its white veil.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here the two combatants drew their swords and threw off their doublets, for neither had any defensive armor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left in sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Aye, by St. Paul!” observed Sir Nigel, “they both bear the print of their armor upon their cotes-hardies. Methinks they are men who breathe freer in a camp than a court.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I pray you, Alleyne, to give him greeting from me, and to ask him for his titles and coat-armor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first was a knight in full armor, mounted upon a brown horse with a white blaze upon breast and forehead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But stay; your master bears no coat-armor, and we have not yet heard his name.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By his armor, sire, which is rounder at elbow and at shoulder than any of Bordeaux or of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And how can you tell that, my Lord Chandos, when he has neither coat-armor, crest, or blazonry?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)