armed
(used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,174 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,100 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms armed robbery
- having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination the many-armed goddess Shiva
- (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
armed in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Armed with these weapons he boldly started up the Glass Mountain.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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The judge was killed in the court house, and Julian, heavily armed, made his escape to the swamps near the city.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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His forest home no hermit's cell he found, Guests, motley-minded, drew his hearth around, And held armed truce upon its neutral ground.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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I mention the incident to show that, although I went blackberrying armed, there was not much inequality between me and the bear.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1