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Ordnance

Noun CEFR B2
ˈɔːdnəns

Definitions

  1. Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Artillery.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“When the Turkes took Constantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I have⟳ heard both Bells and Ordnance, but never been so much affected with those, as with these Bells.”
“From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey map ordnanceman Ordnances Ordnung ordo

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