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Definition of Munition
1. Noun. Weapons considered collectively.
Specialized synonyms: Ammo, Ammunition, Armament, Bomb, Defence System, Defense System, Gunnery, Hardware, Naval Weaponry
Generic synonyms: Instrumentality, Instrumentation
Terms within: Arm, Weapon, Weapon System
2. Verb. Supply with weapons.
3. Noun. Military supplies.
4. Noun. Defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it.
Specialized synonyms: Bastion, Bunker, Dugout, Castle, Defilade, Entrenchment, Intrenchment, Escarp, Escarpment, Protective Embankment, Scarp, Fieldwork, Lunette, Palisade, Breastwork, Parapet, Redoubt, Stockade
Generic synonyms: Defence, Defense, Defensive Structure
Specialized synonyms: Maginot Line, Siegfried Line
Terms within: Bulwark, Rampart, Wall
Derivative terms: Fortify
Definition of Munition
1. n. Fortification; stronghold.
Definition of Munition
1. Noun. (context: usually plural) Armament, weaponry. ¹
2. Noun. (context: military NATO) bombs, rockets, missiles ¹
3. Noun. (rare) (obsolete) a tower or fortification ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Munition
1. to furnish with war materiel [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Munition
1. 1. Fortification; stronghold. "His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks." (Is. Xxxiii. 16) 2. Whatever materials are used in war for drfense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds. "The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war." (Sir W. Raleigh) Origin: F, munition of war, L. Munitio a fortifying, fortification, fr. Munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. Moenia walls, murus (for moirus) a wall, and Skr. Mi to fix, make firm. Cf. Ammunition. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Munition
Literary usage of Munition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Forum 57:279-87 Mr '17 What our munition plants can do. L. Roper. ... Contemp
111:164-71 F '17 How shall we train workers for munition factories? ..."
2. Leading Opinions Both for and Against National Defense: A Symposium of by Hudson Maxim (1916)
"It is a fact which the pacifists charge and munition makers admit, that war is
far more favorable to the making of profits by munition makers than is peace. ..."
3. Why War by Frederic Clemson Howe (1916)
"As a matter of fact, the munition makers form one of the most powerful ...
Prior to the war the munition interests in the United States included the ..."
4. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"But Germany saw that if our munition industries and the facilities for convoying
them to Europe were to cease, the stoppage would have to be effected, ..."
5. The New York Times Current History (1915)
"American munition Supplies The Alleged German Plot to Buy Control of Their Sources
The following dispatch from Washington, dated June 8, 1915, ..."
6. Women of the War by Barbara McLaren (1918)
"XII LADY MARY HAMILTON, MISS STELLA DRUMMOND, AND THE SKILLED WOMEN munition
WORKERS IT is admitted on all sides that the output of munitions achieved by ..."
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