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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɡʌnmɛt(ə)l/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡʌnmɛt(ə)l/ [General-American], /-ɾ(ə)l/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-gunmetal.ogg [Australia] Forms: gunmetals [plural]
Etymology: gun + metal. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|gun|metal}} gun + metal Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gunmetal (countable and uncountable, plural gunmetals)
  1. (historical) A type of bronze used for making cannons. Tags: countable, historical, uncountable
    Sense id: en-gunmetal-en-noun-~LbToBoq
  2. An alloy of 88% copper, 10% tin and 2% zinc, originally used for making guns. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Alloys Synonyms (alloy of copper, tin and zinc): red brass [US] Translations (alloy of copper, tin and zinc): bronze de canó [masculine] (Catalan), dělovina [feminine] (Czech), asemetalli (Finnish), punametalli (Finnish), bronce de canón [masculine] (Galician), Rotguss [masculine] (German), gunnamhiotal [masculine] (Irish), miotal gunna [masculine] (Irish), 砲金 (houkin) (Japanese), meain ghunney [feminine] (Manx), canonbronse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), spiż [masculine] (Polish), kanonmetall [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-gunmetal-en-noun-h2tdNSKR Disambiguation of Alloys: 5 64 31 Disambiguation of 'alloy of copper, tin and zinc': 5 92 3 Disambiguation of 'alloy of copper, tin and zinc': 5 92 3
  3. (also attributive) A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey. Tags: also, attributive, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Firearms, Greys
    Sense id: en-gunmetal-en-noun-V80XO~JD Disambiguation of Firearms: 23 33 44 Disambiguation of Greys: 5 11 84 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 30 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 18 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gun metal, gun-metal, gunmetal gray [colour, color], gunmetal grey [colour, color] Derived forms: gunmetal grey, gunmetal-grey [adjective]

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      "glosses": [
        "A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grey",
          "grey#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "bluish",
          "bluish"
        ],
        [
          "colour",
          "colour#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "gunmetal grey",
          "gunmetal grey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(also attributive) A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "attributive",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡʌnmɛt(ə)l/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡʌnmɛt(ə)l/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɾ(ə)l/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-gunmetal.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/En-au-gunmetal.ogg/En-au-gunmetal.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-au-gunmetal.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gun metal"
    },
    {
      "word": "gun-metal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "red brass"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "colour",
        "color"
      ],
      "word": "gunmetal gray"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "colour",
        "color"
      ],
      "word": "gunmetal grey"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bronze de canó"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dělovina"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "word": "asemetalli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "word": "punametalli"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bronce de canón"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Rotguss"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gunnamhiotal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "miotal gunna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "houkin",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "word": "砲金"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "meain ghunney"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "canonbronse"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spiż"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "alloy of copper, tin and zinc",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kanonmetall"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gunmetal"
}

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