Definition of Weapon

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Weapon

An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.

Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.

A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.

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Weapon Quotations

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mohandas Gandhi

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine

Weapon Translations

weapon in Dutch is wapen
weapon in French is arme
weapon in German is Waffe
weapon in Hungarian is fegyver
weapon in Italian is armi, arma, arme
weapon in Portuguese is arma
weapon in Spanish is arma
weapon in Swedish is vapen

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