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Martial vs Weaponry - What's the difference?

martial | weaponry |

As a proper noun martial

is narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).

As a noun weaponry is

weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.

martial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
  • * Dryden
    • But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set, / Each other's poise and counterbalance are.
  • Relating to or connected with the armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
  • (comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike.
  • (medicine, chemistry, obsolete) Relating to, or containing, iron; chalybeate.
    • martial preparations
    martial flowers: a reddish crystalline salt of iron

    Derived terms

    * court martial * martial art * martialism * martialness * martialist * martial law * martially

    See also

    * Mars

    Anagrams

    * ----

    weaponry

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

    Related terms

    * conventional weaponry