the art or sport of shooting with bows and arrows archers or their weapons collectively
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
ar•cher•y /ˈɑrtʃəri/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Sportthe practice of shooting with a bow and arrow at a target.
ar•cher•y
(är′chə rē),USA pronunciation n.
- Sportthe art, practice, or skill of an archer.
- Militaryarchers collectively, as in an army.
- Sportthe equipment of an archer, as bows and arrows.
- Middle French archerie, equivalent. to arch(i)er archer + -ie -y3
- Middle English archerye 1350–1400
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'archery' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
-ery
- Robin Hood
- Teucer
- address
- arch
- armguard
- blank
- bow hand
- bowwood
- bracer
- broad arrow
- butt
- clout
- draw weight
- end
- feather
- flight
- flight arrow
- flight shooting
- green
- lemonwood
- limb
- main
- overstring
- overstrung
- pile
- point-blank
- popinjay
- round
- rove
- rover
- scud
- sharpshooter
- shelf
- span
- tournament
- toxophilite
- vane
- wand
- white
- yew