weapon
Definitions
General English
- noun an object such as a gun, sword or bomb, which you fight other people with
Military
- noun any object which is designed to kill or injure (such as a bayonet, grenade, rifle, etc.)
- noun any object which is used to kill or injure (such as a broken bottle, knife, piece of wood, etc.)
- noun any object which is designed to cause damage (such as a bomb, missile, rocket, etc.)
Origin & History of “weapon”
Weapon comes
from a prehistoric Germanic *
wǣpnam, a
source it shares with German
waffe, Dutch
wapen, Swedish
vapen, and Danish
vaaben. But of the ancestry of the Germanic
form nothing
certain is known.
