panoply
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek πανοπλία (panoplía, “suit of armour”).
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editNoun
editpanoply (plural panoplies)
- A splendid display of something. [from 1829]
- 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 459:
- Even though we cannot affirm that the products of mimesis are invested in the panoply of existence.
- 2011, The Decemberists (lyrics and music), “June Hymn”, in The King Is Dead:
- And you were waking / And day was breaking / A panoply of song / And summer comes to Springville Hill
- (by extension, historical) A collection or display of weaponry.
- Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories.
- (historical) A complete set of armour. [from 1570s]
- (by extension) Something that covers and protects.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- [I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way; all which, however, he, the man he was, could receive on thick enough panoply, or even rebound therefrom, and also go his way.
- (by extension) A broad or full range or complete set.
- 2016 November, Eugene Rogan, “The First World War and its Legacy in the Middle East”, in Amal Ghazal, Jens Hanssen, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, :
- Indeed, for much of the Arab world, the Turkish term Seferberlik, which originally referred to conscription, has come to represent the panoply of civilian suffering in the Great War.
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editsplendid display of something
collection or display of weaponry
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ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories
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complete set of armour
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Verb
editpanoply (third-person singular simple present panoplies, present participle panoplying, simple past and past participle panoplied)
- To fit out in a suit of armour
- To array or bedeck
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