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arsenal

[ahr-suh-nl, ahrs-nuhl]

noun

  1. a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.

  2. a government establishment where military equipment or munitions are manufactured.

  3. a collection or supply of weapons or munitions.

  4. a collection or supply of anything; store.

    He came to the meeting with an impressive arsenal of new research data.



arsenal

/ ˈɑːəə /

noun

  1. a store for arms, ammunition, and other military items

  2. a workshop or factory that produces munitions

  3. a store of anything regarded as weapons

    an arsenal of destructive arguments

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of arsenal1

1500–10; (< Middle French ) < Italian arzanale < Upper Italian ( Venetian ) à dockyard < Arabic ṣināʿah workshop (literally, house of handwork); initial d probably taken as a form of the preposition di from
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of arsenal1

C16: from Italian arsenale dockyard, from the original Venetian arsenal dockyard and naval store, from Arabic ̄Ը, from house + ̄Ը manufacture
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Their arsenal demands complete vulnerability and unassailable empathy, allowing them not just to inhabit someone entirely different from themselves, but live inside the character.

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Before Israel began its attacks, Iran had what the US described as the "largest ballistic missile arsenal" in the Middle East.

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By contrast, North Korea has defied all international sanctions to build up a formidable arsenal of nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles, enough to make any potential attacker think twice.

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I’m having a lot more fun with my curated choose-your-own-adventure, building my arsenal of fantasies that are one spritz away.

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County Superior Court Judge Bernie LaForteza freed him on his own recognizance in October over strenuous objections from prosecutors, who noted he recently had been found in possession of a small arsenal.

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