Ordnance
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɔːdnəns/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ordnance is a noun meaning (collective) Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
Meaning
(collective) Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
More Meanings
- Artillery.
Example Sentences
Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, / The King shal drinke to Hamlets better breath,
When the Turkes tooke Conſtantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I haue heard both Bells and Ordnance, but neuer been ſo much affected with thoſe, as with theſe Bells.
From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
What Mr. Vance’s trip made clear is that both sides think they emerged as the victor of the first round: the United States by dropping so much ordnance on Iran, the Iranians by surviving. Neither seems in the mood for compromise.
Word Forms
- ordnances
- ordinance
- ordenance
Synonyms for ordnance
Depending on context, synonyms include artillery, gun, munitions.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include artillery, gun, munitions, munition, weaponry, ammunition.
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