panoply

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πανοπλία (panoplía, “suit of armour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpænəpli/

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Noun

panoply (plural panoplies)

1. 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.

   • 2005, Christopher Paolini, “The Burning Plains”, in Eldest, page 581:

     To the south were the Varden and the men of Surda, entrenched behind multiple layers of defense, where they displayed a fine panoply of woven standards, ranks of proud tents, and the picketed horses of King Orrin's cavalry.

   • 2011, The Decemberists, “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

2. (by extension, historical) A collection or display of weaponry.
3. Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories.
4. (historical) A complete set of armour. [from 1570s]
5. (by extension) Something that covers and protects.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (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.

7. (by extension) A broad or full range or complete set.

   Near-synonyms: plenitude, plentitude, plenty, cornucopia

   • 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, →DOI:

     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.

Derived terms

• empanoply
• panoplied
• panoplist

Related terms

• hoplite

Translations

splendid display of something

• Dutch: praal (nl)
• Finnish: komeus (fi)
• German: Palette (de) f, Spektrum (de) n

collection or display of weaponry

• Dutch: wapenrusting (nl)
• Finnish: asekokoelma
• Greek: οπλοστάσιο (el) n (oplostásio)
• Hungarian: panoplia
• Portuguese: panóplia (pt) f
• Spanish: panoplia (es) f

ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories

• Bulgarian: пищни дрехи f pl (pištni drehi)
• Finnish: juhla-asu

complete set of armour

• Bulgarian: доспехи (bg) m pl (dospehi)
• Catalan: panòplia f
• Esperanto: panoplio (eo)
• Finnish: täyshaarniska, sotisopa (fi), haarniska (fi)
• French: panoplie (fr)
• German: Rüstung (de) f
• Greek: πανοπλία (el) f (panoplía)
• Hungarian: panoplia
• Italian: panoplia (it) f
• Polish: zbroja (pl) f
• Portuguese: panóplia (pt) f
• Russian: доспех (ru) (dospex)
• Spanish: panoplia (es) f

something that covers and protects

• Finnish: suoja (fi)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} panoplie (fr)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} panoplia (it) f

Verb

panoply (third-person singular simple present panoplies, present participle panoplying, simple past and past participle panoplied)

1. To fit out in a suit of armour
2. To array or bedeck