armor

Meanings

Noun

• A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
• A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
• Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
• A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
• A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
• The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.

Verb

• To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
• To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

Related

Similar words

• body armour, body armor, mail, chain mail, plate, suit of armour, suit of armor
• horn, carapace, chitin
• armour plate, armor plate
• mechanized, cavalry

Origin

• From Middle English armure, armour, armor, armeure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure and Old French armeüre, from Latin armātūra. armure.