firearms
USFY-ur-armz/ˈfaɪəɹˌɑː(ɹ)mz/UKFY-uh-rahmz/ˈfaɪəɹˌɑːmz/
- 1Plural of firearm.
Police recovered three firearms from the abandoned vehicle.
The museum displays antique firearms behind reinforced glass.
Note
A regular plural that behaves unusually in front of other nouns. English usually turns a noun singular when it modifies another (gun control, not guns control), but here the plural holds in fixed phrases: firearms licensing, firearms training. The word itself stays narrow. It covers personal weapons that fire a projectile with explosive powder, so heavy artillery falls outside it.
firearms is a form of firearm
firearm, noun: A personal weapon that uses an explosive charge of powder to drive a projectile, often made of lead. Full entry
- Forms
- firearmfirearms plural
- Spelling
- firearm → firearms: add -s
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