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- a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.
- a government establishment where military equipment or munitions are manufactured.
- a collection or supply of weapons or munitions.
- a collection or supply of anything; store: He came to the meeting with an impressive arsenal of new research data.
noun
- a store for arms, ammunition, and other military items
- a workshop or factory that produces munitions
- a store of anything regarded as weaponsan arsenal of destructive arguments
c.1500, “dockyard, dock with naval stores,” from Italian arzenale, from Arabic dar as-sina’ah “workshop,” literally “house of manufacture,” from dar “house” + sina’ah “art, craft, skill,” from sana’a “he made.”
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where the original players worked.