FIREARM

Pronunciation (US):

• FIREARM (noun)
  The noun FIREARM has 1 sense:

1. a portable gun

  Familiarity information: FIREARM used as a noun is very rare.

• FIREARM (noun)

Meaning:

A portable gun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

firearm; small-arm; piece

Context example:

he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster

Hypernyms ("firearm" is a kind of...):

gun (a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel))

Meronyms (parts of "firearm"):

firing pin (striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer)

lock (a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun)

sight (a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "firearm"):

autoloader; self-loader (a firearm that reloads itself)

smoothbore (a firearm that has no rifling)

scattergun; shotgun (firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges)

riot gun (a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death)

rifle (a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore)

repeater; repeating firearm (a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading)

handgun; pistol; shooting iron; side arm (a firearm that is held and fired with one hand)

muzzle loader (an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle)

machine gun (a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted))

.22; twenty-two (a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle))