weapon

Significado (Inglês)

1. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.
2. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
3. (informal) A tool of any kind.
4. (slang) An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
5. (slang) A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
6. (slang) The human genital organ.

arms

arm

weapon system

shot gun

lethal weapon

lethal tools

military equipment

Freqüência

Hifenizado como

weap‧on

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwɛp.ən/

From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom. Cognate with Scots wapyn, wappen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon”), Dutch wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Low German wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”) Swedish vapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Norwegian Bokmål våpen (“weapon”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”).