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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
panoply
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
whole
▪ In the whole panoply of anti-poverty policies the minimum wage stands as the vital back marker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Penicillin was used to treat a whole panoply of conditions.
▪ the whole panoply of a royal wedding
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the whole panoply of anti-poverty policies the minimum wage stands as the vital back marker.
▪ Statues of angels, madonnas, saints and saviours cram the skyline, creating a surreal panoply of agony and ecstasy.
▪ The unhappy peasantry of Bengal found itself saddled with an impressive panoply of middlemen and parasites.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Panoply

Panoply \Pan"o*ply\ (p[a^]n"[-o]*pl[y^]), n. [Gr. panopli`a; pa^s, pa^n, all + "o`plon tool, implement, in pl., armor, arms.]

  1. Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.
    --Milton.

    We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put on the whole armor of God.
    --Ray.

  2. Hence: Any full set of elaborate attire, complete with accessories or accompanying paraphernalia; any elaborate special or ceremonial attire and equipment.

  3. Hence: Any impressive complete array; as, the full panoply of a presidential funeral.

  4. Hence: [Fig.:] Any complete array of devices used in an endeavor; as, to deploy the full panoply of writer's techniques.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
panoply

1570s, from Greek panoplia "complete suit of armor," from pan- "all" (see pan-) + hopla (plural), "arms" of a hoplites ("heavily armed soldier"); see hoplite. Originally in English figurative, of "spiritual armor," etc. (a reference to Eph. vi); non-armorial sense of "any splendid array" first recorded 1829.

Wiktionary
panoply

n. 1 A splendid display of something. 2 (context by extension English) a collection or display of weaponry 3 ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories. 4 A complete set of armour. 5 (context by extension English) Something that covers and protects.

WordNet
panoply

n. a complete and impressive array

Wikipedia
Panoply

A panoply is a complete suit of armour. The word represents the ancient Greek πανοπλία. The word πᾶν means "all", and ὅπλον, "arms". Thus "panoply" refers to the full armour of a hoplite or heavy-armed soldier, i.e. the shield, breastplate, helmet and greaves, together with the sword and lance.

As applied to armour of a later date, panoply did not come into use till the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, and was then used of the complete suits of plate armour covering the whole body.

Because a panoply is a complete set of diverse components, the word panoply has come to refer to any complete or impressive collection.

Panoply (disambiguation)

Panoply may refer to:

  • a panoply, a complete suit of armour
  • The Dendra panoply, an ancient Greek suit of armour
  • Panoply (company), an American digital media company and podcast network
  • Panoply (software), a file viewer developed at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies
  • Panoply Arts Festival, an annual three-day celebration of the arts in Huntsville, Alabama

Usage examples of "panoply".

Gamesmen are all panoplied up with their banners and helms, fringes flying and Heralds announcing them to all and his cousins.

Cut and see the bodies of those who had drowned in the attempt to swim the Banner, panoplied in sodden glory, dead.

And, ere the dawn, had wrought a panoply, The goodliest ever worn by mortal king.

Of my conflicting spirit, and I doffed the modest Christian weeds of charity And fit humility, and steeled myself In pagan panoply of stoicism And self-sufficing pride.

Dowered with a proconsular imperium, he enjoyed the sumptuous panoply of riding behind twelve crimson-clad, black-and-brass-belted lictors bearing the axes in their bundles of rods.

I looked up to see a Herald in full panoply and two people with blindfolds on.

In undimmed panoply, he had returned to his square city that lay within sight of the restless Smoking Crown volcano.

Their rag-tag panoply stood in considerable contrast with the fighters who marched around them.

The right of intervention figured prominently among the panoply of instruments accorded the United Nations by its Charter for maintaining international order, but the contemporary reconfiguration of this right represents a qualitative leap.

The entire panoply of movements and the entire emerging counterculture highlighted the social value of cooperation and communication.

The panoply of thermonuclear weapons, effectively gathered at the pinnacle of Empire, represents the continuous possibility of the destruction of life itself.

Exactly how much of human misery and despair was a natural consequence of sheer existence, and how much due to the interference of this vast panoply of unearthly parasitic beings?

Cody paid less attention to the panoply of sounds than he did to the shuddering stone.

At the head of the valley were ranked the soldiers of the archmage - trained units of men and demi-humans well armed with bows and arbalests, pole arms, and the full panoply of war.

Carina-Cygnus fade, the richly glowing colors tarnish, the Imperial panoply and pomp become worn and tattered.