weapon – English noun declension

English noun forms of weapon

Noun: weapon
Singularweapon
Pluralweapons

Sample Sentences

  • The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.
  • Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful. [2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:]
  • Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.
  • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.” [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Rory Delap's long throw-ins are a familiar weapon to the Potters' opponents but this does not make them any easier to defend against. [2011 January 15, Phil Dawkes, “Stoke 2-0 Bolton”, in BBC:]
  • Choose your weapon.
  • It has a whopping 5.4-litre V8, with a supercharger bolted to the top of it to help low-end pulling power. In short, it's a weapon and will happily dust a Porsche as easy as brushing your teeth. [2006 May 12, Joshua Dowling, “Brains or brawn”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:]
  • We played Endless Heights' record release show earlier this year and during their set Christian from Endless Heights' lung collapsed, but he finished the set like an absolute weapon. [2016 November 21, Marcus Tamp, “Hardcore 2016 Focus: Vices”, in The Music:]
  • I adore her in Easter Parade and Meet Me in St. Louis, but my favourite performance of hers is her concert at [New York’s] Carnegie Hall. She’s a total weapon on that stage. [2020 October 26, Alley Pascoe, “Megan Washington's Love Letter To RuPaul”, in Marie Claire:]
  • American teenager Caroline Marks was trotting across the sand on her dream day at North Narrabeen when Luke Egan called out to her: "You weapon!" [...] Egan was mentoring Marks in between commentary stints. He was one of the people to chair the weapon up the beach, calling out to her: "What did I tell you!" [2021 April 20, Will Swanton, “From one goofy-footer to another: American Caroline Marks 'stoked' to win Narrabeen Classic”, in The Australian:]
  • Young motherfucking legend, niggas just pretending
  • I spit my shit, infectious, don't come in my section
  • Or get wet bitch with that weapon
  • Lift the pussy, yeah I bench press it, and I been stressing since a adolescent [2013 December 3, Beamon, “Lord Love Me” (track 2), in The BeamGod: Lost Files:]
  • Weh you get da pussy deh from?
  • Hey, gyal me love you
  • Md love the way you use your weapon
  • Gyal, your pussy tight like a vice grip [2017 April 13, Mavado, “Ride All Night (My Kinda Girl)” (in Jamaican Creole):]
  • Bring my baby a present
  • Put your head on the dresser
  • She open her legs, then I whip out my weapon
  • Sj immortal, the fuck is checking [2019 February 14, “Jimmy Neutron” (track 4), in NQTATS aka CAVIN KON (lyrics), A Taste Of My Heart:]
  • I bust a bitch down in forty-five seconds
  • If it's good, Imma pop two Percs, and come back for seconds
  • She probably got a felony, that's an illegal weapon
  • Stick my whole hand in her pussy, I was tryna stretch it [2019 June 29, “3 Minutes”, Rio Da Yung OG (lyrics):]

Etymology

1. From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots weepon (“weapon”), North Frisian woopen (“weapon”), Saterland Frisian Woapen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Alemannic German Waaffe (“tool”), Dutch wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Luxembourgish Waff (“weapon”), Yiddish וואָפֿן (vofn, “weapon”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”), Faroese vákn, vápn (“weapon; whaling lance”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk våpen (“weapon”), Swedish vapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐍀𐌽 (wēpn, “weapon”). See: Middle English Nouns 'wepen', Dutch Nouns 'wapen', German Nouns 'Waffe', Danish Nouns 'våben', Faroese Nouns 'vákn', Icelandic Nouns 'vopn', Swedish Nouns 'vapen', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌴𐍀𐌽'.

Verbs referencing "weapon"

German Nouns Waffe, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns våpen.