munition
See also: Munition
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition, from mūnīre (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) + -tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -ion.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editmunition (plural munitions)
- (chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
- 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] [1]:
- Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
- (chiefly in the plural, military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
- (rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
- 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Habacvc 2:1:
- I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editarmaments, weapons, ammunition
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Verb
editmunition (third-person singular simple present munitions, present participle munitioning, simple past and past participle munitioned)
- (transitive) To supply with munitions.
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 154:
- Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
Derived terms
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin mūnitiōnem, from mūniō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmunition f (plural munitions)
- ammunition (weaponry)
Usage notes
editGenerally used in the plural.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- English: munition, ammunition
Further reading
edit- “munition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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