arsenal

name

1. The Arsenal Football Club.

noun

Etymology: From Italian arsenale, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”), from دَار (dār) + صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa).

1. A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
2. A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
3. A store or supply of anything.

   “Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.”

4. Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship

   “He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.”

   “Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.”