artillery

CEFRC1

/ɑːˈtɪləɹi/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Large guns used by an army.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.

Examples

  • A volley of artillery fire completely destroyed the buildings.

  • Sami had an artillery vest.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
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Citations
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).

  2. Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.

  3. Weapons, especially siege engines.

More examples

In context

  • The soldiers had artillery.

  • And Ionathan gaue his artillery vnto his ladde, and said vnto him, Goe, cary them to the citie.

  • The old walls […] were surely strong enough to keep out men without battering-rams, balistas, or artillery of any kind. [Footnote] Artillery is here used in its old English meaning for any kind of warlike engine. Cf. I Sam. XX. 40.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from Vulgar Latin *apticlō < **apticulō, from Latin aptō (“to make capable”).