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Webster 1913 Edition

Munition

Mu-ni′tion

,
Noun.
[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
.]
1.
Fortification; stronghold.
[Obs.]
His place of defense shall be the
munitions
of rocks.
Is. xxxiii. 16.
2.
Whatever materials are used in war for defense 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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Munition

MUNI'TION

,
Noun.
[L. munitio, from munio, to fortify.]
1.
Fortification.
2.
Ammunition; whatever materials are used in war for defense, or for annoying an enemy. The word includes guns of all kinds, mortars, &c. and their loading.
3.
Provisions of a garrison or fortress, or for ships of war,and in general for an army; stores of all kinds for a fort, an army or navy.
Munition-ships, ships which convey military and naval stores of any kind, and attend or follow a fleet to supply ships of war.

Definition 2024

Munition

Munition

See also: munition

German

Noun

Munition f ‎(genitive Munition, no plural)

  1. ammunition, munition

Synonyms

  • Schießbedarf

munition

munition

See also: Munition

English

Noun

munition ‎(plural munitions)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
    • 1918, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation Book 7.:
      Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
  2. (chiefly in the plural, military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
  3. (rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
    • 1610, Douay-Rheims Bible, Habacuc 2:1
      I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.

Translations

Verb

munition ‎(third-person singular simple present munitions, present participle munitioning, simple past and past participle munitioned)

  1. (transitive) To supply with munitions.

French

Etymology

From Latin mūnitiō, from mūniō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mynisjɔ̃/

Noun

munition f ‎(plural munitions)

  1. ammunition (weaponry)

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