Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A splendid or striking array or arrangement.
- noun Ceremonial attire with all accessories.
- noun Something that covers and protects.
- noun The complete arms and armor of a warrior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A complete set or suit of arms, offensive and defensive; the complete defensive armor of any period, especially that from the fifteenth century onward, when all the pieces were of wrought steel and accurately adapted to their purpose: often used figuratively.
- noun A group or assemblage of pieces of defensive armor, with or without weapons, arranged as a sort of trophy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.
- noun Any full set of elaborate attire, complete with accessories or accompanying paraphernalia; any elaborate special or ceremonial attire and equipment.
- noun Any impressive complete array.
- noun Any complete array of devices used in an endeavor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
splendid display of something. - noun by extension a collection or display of weaponry
- noun
Ceremonial garments , complete with allaccessories . - noun A complete set of
armour . - noun by extension Something that
covers andprotects .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a complete and impressive array
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hasan a steed of the best and equipped him in panoply and weaponed him with goodly weapons.
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I ` m going to go look up the word panoply or whatever it was.
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The fact that Harlequin, Virtue and Pleasure are incorporated into the list suggests that the entire panoply is understood to be similarly fanciful.
Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb 2000
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Votes were passed for deposing the Four Hundred, and placing the government in the hands of the 5000, of whom every citizen who could furnish a panoply might be a member.
A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853
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"Social welfare" was defined as a panoply of expenditures, including health care, housing support, unemployment benefit, disability allowances, family support and help for job seekers.
Medindia Health News 2010
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"Social welfare" was defined as a panoply of expenditures, including health care, housing support, unemployment benefit, disability allowances, family support and help for job seekers.
Medindia Health News 2010
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"Social welfare" was defined as a panoply of expenditures, including health care, housing support, unemployment benefit, disability allowances, family support and help for job seekers.
EU News 2010
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It was just like a Hollywood movie and it was something that people in England have not seen for a long time and I don't think that anybody had had that kind of panoply of grandeur.
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The Greeks, among other weapons (such as bow and arrow), military tools and machines which they were implicating in war, were using most often for a body to body combat swords and spears and possibly less often axes, and of course they were protecting their bodies by using a "panoply" of defensive tools and clothing.
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The Doctor had spent the night in devotion, and came from his oratory clad in that celestial panoply which is proof against the terrors of military array.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
quotato commented on the word panoply
"It’s an impressive panoply of moonbat leftist self-loathing, exemplified by Republican political leaders holding hands with the Devil...."
January 12, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word panoply
The Pixies original name was "Pixies in Panoply"
January 29, 2007
reesetee commented on the word panoply
"On one level, this is just the low comedy of the profit motive: our finest techno-wizards and their beautiful machines wrestling with the meaning of ':)' so that some cellphone company can micro-target its fee increases. But Baker also, in effect, offers a counternarrative to the usual story about the digital revolution. While millions of ordinary citizens have been empowered to express their individuality with a panoply of new tools, a smaller number of people have been working out the most efficient ways to convert those individuals into numbers on a spreadsheet." -- They’ve Got Your Number, NYT, 10/31/08
November 4, 2008
bashaba@mail.com commented on the word panoply
asvab- display - an impressive array of assembled persons
March 7, 2011