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Munition means military supplies such as guns, bombs, and shells. In real use you almost always hear the plural, munitions: a munitions factory. It is a serious news and history word. There is also a verb, to munition, meaning to supply an army with those things, but the noun is far more common. Though actually, ammunition is a close cousin and often means the bullets and shells themselves; munitions can be the wider pile of war supplies.
軍火；軍需品
組成From Latin mūnitiō (a defence, a fortification) through French munition. The Latin verb mūnīre meant to fortify or defend with a wall, from moenia (city walls). In English it matches munite + -ion.
同家族的字
- ammunitionthe same French munition; English stuck an extra a- on the front
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
munitionnoun/ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/
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Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
- Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsBombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
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obsoleterareA tower or fortification.
- I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
munitionverb/ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/
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To supply with munitions.
- Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。