panoply
/ˈpænəpli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collection or display of weaponry.
noun
verb
To fit out in a suit of armour
Example Sentences
- "Even though we cannot affirm that the products of mimesis are invested in the panoply of existence."
- "To the south were the Varden and the men of Surda, entrenched behind multiple layers of defense, where they displayed a fine panoply of woven standards, ranks of proud tents, and the picketed horses of King Orrin's cavalry."
- "And you were waking / And day was breaking / A panoply of song / And summer comes to Springville Hill"
- "[I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way; all which, however, he, the man he was, could receive on thick enough panoply, or even rebound therefrom, and also go his way."
- "Near-synonyms: plenitude, plentitude, plenty, cornucopia"
- "Indeed, for much of the Arab world, the Turkish term Seferberlik, which originally referred to conscription, has come to represent the panoply of civilian suffering in the Great War."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
panoplies (plural)
panoplies (present, singular)
panoplying (participle, present)
panoplied (participle, past)
panoplied (past)