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An armory has traditionally been a military storage compound where machine guns, rifles, pistols, ammunition, parts, and accessories are kept. In the U.S., National Guard and Reserve units often use armories as training headquarters in peacetime. Ever since George Washington established the country's first armory in Springfield in 1777, arsenals and armories of the Army Ordnance Corps have had a remarkable history of arms manufacture.
Examples of armory in a Sentence
Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
The names of his friends tragically killed on Oct. 7 are written on a sign by the kibbutz’s armory for visitors to see.
—Anna Schecter, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
Visitors can explore the inner and outer courtyards, dining room, chapel, armory, and dungeon (with fake skeleton).
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
Web scraping is just one of the powerful tools in a data enthusiast's armory, like a digital miner who extracts precious information from the depths of the internet.
—Sandro Shubladze, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Created and starring Quinta Brunson (A Black Lady Sketch Show), the sitcom returns to the mockumentary format made famous by shows like The Office and Parks and Recreation, but manages to distinguish itself through its impeccable writing, performances, and armory of adorable child actors.
—EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
Catch a performance at the Paramount Theatre, which started out as an armory in 1882 and was rebuilt from the ground up after a 2005 fire.
—Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
The underground infrastructure is used for command-and-control centers, armories, food and fuel warehouses, weapons caches, and underground factories to manufacture rockets.
—Ilan Ben Zion, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
Some of the organization’s earliest meetings were at an armory about 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) north of the courthouse where the trial is being held.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye "armor and weapons, storehouse for weaponry, workshop in which weapons are made or repaired," borrowed from Anglo-French armurrie, from armure "arms, armor" + -ie -y entry 2
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Armory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/armory. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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