MUNITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does munition mean? 

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

1. weapons considered collectively

2. military supplies

3. defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it

  Familiarity information: MUNITION used as a noun is uncommon.

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

1. supply with weapons

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUNITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weapons considered collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

arms; implements of war; munition; weaponry; weapons system

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

instrumentality; instrumentation (an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end)

Meronyms (parts of "munition"):

arm; weapon; weapon system (any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting)

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

ammo; ammunition (projectiles to be fired from a gun)

armament (weaponry used by military or naval force)

bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)

defence system; defense system (the weaponry available for the defense of a region)

gunnery (guns collectively)

hardware (major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile))

naval weaponry (weaponry for warships)

Derivation:

munition (supply with weapons)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Military supplies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

munition; ordnance; ordnance store

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

armament (weaponry used by military or naval force)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fortification; munition

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

defence; defense; defensive structure (a structure used to defend against attack)

Meronyms (parts of "munition"):

bulwark; rampart; wall (an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes)

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

bunker; dugout (a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground)

stockade (fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense)

redoubt ((military) a temporary or supplementary fortification; typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses)

breastwork; parapet (fortification consisting of a low wall)

palisade (fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground)

lunette (temporary fortification like a detached bastion)

fieldwork (a temporary fortification built by troops in the field)

escarp; escarpment; protective embankment; scarp (a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification)

entrenchment; intrenchment (an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches)

defilade (the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire)

castle (a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack)

bastion (projecting part of a rampart or other fortification)

Instance hyponyms:

Maginot Line (a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border; initially considered to be impregnable, it was easily overrun by the German army in 1940)

Siegfried line (German fortifications facing the Maginot Line)

• MUNITION (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply with weapons

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

arm (supply with arms)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

munition (weapons considered collectively)

 Context examples 

But I can assure you that so far as the essentials go—the storage of munitions, the preparation for submarine attack, the arrangements for making high explosives—nothing is prepared.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)