superweapon

English

Alternative forms

• super-weapon

Etymology

From super- +‎ weapon.

Noun

superweapon (plural superweapons)

1. An extremely powerful weapon.
   • 1969 February 3, The Nation‎^[1], J.H. Richards, page 150:

     It was after the publication of 1984 that Orwell became, as Isaac Deutscher put it, an ideological "superweapon of the cold war."

Translations

extremely powerful weapon

• Finnish: superase

References

• “superweapon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “superweapon”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “super-weapon, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.