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Definition of panoply in English: panoplynoun ˈpanəpliˈpænəpli 1An extensive or impressive collection. a deliciously inventive panoply of insults Example sentencesExamples - No one who engages the new panoply of associations and parties can fail to recognize the democratic pulse and possibilities.
- The resulting panoply of data has become the basis of an ambitious commercial service that IBM recently launched called WebFountain.
- Each book that appears about her panoply of lovers serves to contrast with the fact that, although of course it was not his wife, he was only ever in love with one woman.
- The proclaimed Jewish nature of the state is reinforced by a panoply of laws ranging from a ban on mixed marriages to over 90 per cent of the land and property in Israel being reserved for Jews.
- Kota Kinabalu has a panoply of starred and budget hotels ranging from the ultra luxurious to non-star accommodation.
- 1.1 A splendid display.
I leaned forward to take in the full panoply of tourist London Example sentencesExamples - The smiths, resplendent in the full panoply of Tuareg costume, had organised a dance in a dusty street that backed onto the hotel kitchen.
- The entire panoply of human emotion was manifested in those 120 minutes.
- Alongside, on a watch face, time has stood still; beneath it, in a panoply of colour, things begin to disintegrate into abstraction.
- Most of us are not over-awed (as many of our parents' generation were - and, it must be said, some people still are) by the panoply of pomp that goes with formal royal occasions.
- The truth is that she belonged to an almost unimaginable past, one that has gone for ever; it is also a country inhabited by those who wanted the full panoply of Victorian mourning for the grandmother they never knew.
Synonyms trappings, regalia, apparatus splendour, spectacle, show, display ceremony, ritual - 1.2literary, historical A complete suit of armour.
Example sentencesExamples - As a weak or crippled body derives no advantage from a panoply of armour, which it will rather discard as being unable to bear it, so, in the same manner, a vigorous body causes affliction to a diseased soul by not being in conformity with its existing circumstances.
- In most parts of Greece, the main armed force consisted of hoplites, heavy infantry, each armed with a single thrusting spear and sword, and protected by a panoply of bronze armour.
Synonyms protective covering, armour plate
Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'complete protection for spiritual warfare', often with biblical allusion to Eph. 6:11, 13): from French panoplie or modern Latin panoplia 'full armour', from Greek, from pan 'all' + hopla 'arms'. Definition of panoply in US English: panoplynounˈpænəpliˈpanəplē 1A complete or impressive collection of things. a deliciously inventive panoply of insults Example sentencesExamples - Kota Kinabalu has a panoply of starred and budget hotels ranging from the ultra luxurious to non-star accommodation.
- Each book that appears about her panoply of lovers serves to contrast with the fact that, although of course it was not his wife, he was only ever in love with one woman.
- The resulting panoply of data has become the basis of an ambitious commercial service that IBM recently launched called WebFountain.
- No one who engages the new panoply of associations and parties can fail to recognize the democratic pulse and possibilities.
- The proclaimed Jewish nature of the state is reinforced by a panoply of laws ranging from a ban on mixed marriages to over 90 per cent of the land and property in Israel being reserved for Jews.
- 1.1 A splendid display.
all the panoply of Western religious liturgy Example sentencesExamples - Alongside, on a watch face, time has stood still; beneath it, in a panoply of colour, things begin to disintegrate into abstraction.
- The entire panoply of human emotion was manifested in those 120 minutes.
- The truth is that she belonged to an almost unimaginable past, one that has gone for ever; it is also a country inhabited by those who wanted the full panoply of Victorian mourning for the grandmother they never knew.
- The smiths, resplendent in the full panoply of Tuareg costume, had organised a dance in a dusty street that backed onto the hotel kitchen.
- Most of us are not over-awed (as many of our parents' generation were - and, it must be said, some people still are) by the panoply of pomp that goes with formal royal occasions.
Synonyms trappings, regalia, apparatus - 1.2historical, literary A complete set of arms or suit of armor.
Example sentencesExamples - As a weak or crippled body derives no advantage from a panoply of armour, which it will rather discard as being unable to bear it, so, in the same manner, a vigorous body causes affliction to a diseased soul by not being in conformity with its existing circumstances.
- In most parts of Greece, the main armed force consisted of hoplites, heavy infantry, each armed with a single thrusting spear and sword, and protected by a panoply of bronze armour.
Synonyms protective covering, armour plate
Origin Late 16th century (in the sense ‘complete protection for spiritual warfare’, often with biblical allusion to Eph. 6:11, 13): from French panoplie or modern Latin panoplia ‘full armor’, from Greek, from pan ‘all’ + hopla ‘arms’. |