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PANOPLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does panoply mean? 

PANOPLY (noun)
  The noun PANOPLY has 1 sense:

1. a complete and impressive arrayplay

  Familiarity information: PANOPLY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PANOPLY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A complete and impressive array

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

array (an orderly arrangement)


 Context examples 


From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove buttons.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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