ammunition

English

an assortment of rifle ammunition

Etymology

French amunition, for munition, probably caused by taking "la munition" as "l'amunition". See munition.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /%{mju"nIS@n/

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Noun

ammunition (countable and uncountable; plural ammunitions)

1. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
2. (obsolete) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.

   Her bad behaviour is giving him ammunition for a divorce.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Synonyms

• (articles used in charging firearms): ammo

Translations

articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds

• Alabama: ɬaki
• Arabic: ذخيرة (ar) (ḏuxīra) f
• Bulgarian: муниции (bg) (munícii) f pl , боеприпаси (bg) (bojepripási) m pl 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍火 (cmn), 军火 (cmn) (jūnhuǒ), 彈藥 (cmn), 弹药 (cmn) (dànyào)

• Czech: munice (cs)
• Danish: ammunition (da)
• Dutch: ammunitie, munitie, schietvoorraad
• Finnish: ammukset (fi)
• French: balle (fr), munitions (fr)
• German: Munition (de) f
• Greek: πυρομαχικά (el) (pyromachiká) n pl , πολεμοφόδια (el) (polemofódia) n pl 
• Hungarian: lőszer (hu), muníció (hu)
• Italian: munizioni (it)

• Japanese: 弾薬 (ja) (だんやく, dan'yaku)
• Jèrriais: meunition f
• Korean: 탄약 (ko) (tanyak) (彈藥 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ده‌بۆ

• Navajo: bikʼáʼ
• Norwegian: ammunisjon (no) m
• Portuguese: munição (pt) f
• Romanian: muniție (ro)
• Russian: боеприпасы (ru) (bojepripásy) m pl , боевые боеприпасы (ru) (bojevýje pripásy) m pl , амуниция (ru) (amunícija) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: муниција (sh) f, municija (sh) f, streljivo (sh) n (Croatia)
• Spanish: munición (es) f
• Swedish: ammunition (sv)
• Turkish: cephane (tr), mühimmat (tr)

any stock of missiles

• Japanese: 飛び道具 (ja) (とびどうぐ, tobidōgu)

• Portuguese: munição (pt) f

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• Finnish: ammukset (fi) (1), ampumatarvikkeet (fi) pl (1,2)

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Noun

ammunition c

1. ammunition

Declension

Declension of ammunition

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ammunition	ammunitionen	ammunitioner	ammunitionerna
genitive	ammunitions	ammunitionens	ammunitioners	ammunitionernas