weapon
pronunciation
How to pronounce weapon in British English:
UK [ˈwepən]
How to pronounce weapon in American English:
US [ˈwepən]
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- Noun:
- any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
- a means of persuading or arguing
Word Origin
- weapon
- weapon: [OE] Weapon comes from a prehistoric Germanic *wǣpnam, a source it shares with German waffe, Dutch wapen, Swedish vapen, and Danish vaaben. But of the ancestry of the Germanic form nothing certain is known.
- weapon (n.)
- Old English wæpen "instrument of fighting and defense, sword," also "penis," from Proto-Germanic *wæpnan (cognates: Old Saxon wapan, Old Norse vapn, Danish vaaben, Old Frisian wepin, Middle Dutch wapen, Old High German wafan, German Waffe "weapon"), from *webno-m, of unknown origin with no cognates outside Germanic.
Example
- 1. This weapon is depicted on flags of many countries .
- 2. The museum possesses-but doesn 't exhibit-the custom-made club that served as the murder weapon .
- 3. Our secret weapon was similar .
- 4. Man will always seek the ultimate weapon .
- 5. America has a potent new weapon .