maces

The word “maces” has 2 syllables: ma-ces

It's pronounced as /ˈmeɪsɪz/


What is synonym and antonym for maces?

In the thesaurus, “maces” has 38 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for maces along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for maces

  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • beetles
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bludgeons
  • canes
  • clubs
  • crabsticks
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • gavels
  • hammers
  • hickories
  • knobkerries
  • mallets
  • mauls
  • nightsticks
  • rattans
  • rods
  • rungs
  • saps
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • sledgehammers
  • staffs
  • staves
  • switches
  • truncheons
  • waddies
  • walking sticks
  • whangees

Meanings of maces

  • noun
    1. A heavy fighting club.
    2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
    3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
    4. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
    5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
    6. A billiard cue.
    7. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
    8. An old weight of 57.98 grains.
    9. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
  • verb
    1. To hit someone or something with a mace.
    2. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
    3. To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

Example Sentences

  • The knight carried two maces into battle, ready to face any opponent.
  • In the medieval exhibit, the display showcased various types of ancient weapons, including spiked maces.
  • During the ceremony, tribal leaders exchanged symbolic maces to signify unity and strength.
  • The historical reenactor demonstrated the proper technique of wielding maces for the curious audience.
  • The museum's collection featured ornate ceremonial maces from different cultures and time periods.

On this page you'll find 38 synonyms or another words to maces, such as: bastinades, bastinadoes, batons, bats, beetles, billies, billy clubs.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

canes

  • assails
  • assaults
  • attacks
  • bashes
  • bastes
  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • batters
  • beats
  • beetles
  • belabors
  • belts
  • besets
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bludgeons
  • boxes
  • buffets
  • bungs up
  • busts
  • chops
  • clobbers
  • clouts
  • clubs
  • cowhides
  • crabsticks
  • cracks
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • cuffs
  • curries
  • does
  • drubs
  • fibs
  • flagellates
  • flogs
  • fustigates
  • gavels
  • gores
  • hammers
  • hickories
  • hides
  • hits
  • horsewhips
  • knobkerries
  • knocks
  • lacerates
  • laces
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • lams
  • lashes
  • lathers
  • lays on
  • leathers
  • licks
  • maces
  • maims
  • mallets
  • mangles
  • mauls
  • mutilates
  • nightsticks
  • paddles
  • pastes
  • pelts
  • pistol-whips
  • pommels
  • pounds
  • pummels
  • punches
  • punches out
  • raids
  • rattans
  • rawhides
  • rods
  • rungs
  • rushes
  • saps
  • scourges
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • slams
  • slaps
  • slates
  • sledgehammers
  • slogs
  • smacks
  • smashes
  • socks
  • spanks
  • staffs
  • staves
  • storms
  • straps
  • swats
  • swipes
  • switches
  • tans
  • thrashes
  • threshes
  • thumps
  • thwacks
  • tromps
  • truncheons
  • waddies
  • walking sticks
  • wallops
  • whacks
  • whales
  • whams
  • whangees
  • whaps
  • whips
  • whomps
  • whops
  • whups
  • works over
  • wounds

faces

  • Potemkin villages
  • abide
  • abuts
  • accost
  • accosts
  • adjoins
  • affectations
  • affront
  • affronts
  • air
  • airs
  • allow
  • apparels
  • appearance
  • appearances
  • approaches
  • arrays
  • aspect
  • aspects
  • audacity
  • babies
  • battles
  • be confronted by
  • be turned toward
  • bear
  • beard
  • beards
  • bearings
  • beings
  • birds
  • bit the bullet
  • blankets
  • bodies
  • bods
  • boldness
  • border
  • borders
  • bounds
  • brace
  • brass
  • brave
  • braves
  • brazens
  • breasts
  • brethren
  • brook
  • brothers
  • cast
  • casts
  • celebrities
  • challenge
  • challenges
  • characters
  • cheek
  • chutzpah
  • clad
  • clads
  • cloak
  • cloaks
  • clock
  • clothes
  • coat
  • combats
  • commands
  • confidence
  • confront
  • confronts
  • contend
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  • cookies
  • cope with
  • corners
  • countenance
  • countenances
  • court
  • cover
  • coverings
  • covers
  • creatures
  • cross
  • customers
  • dare
  • dares
  • deal with
  • decorate
  • defies
  • defy
  • demeanors
  • demonstrations
  • devils
  • dial
  • dignity
  • disguise
  • disguises
  • display
  • displays
  • dominates
  • dress
  • dresses
  • ducks
  • effects
  • effrontery
  • eggs
  • embosoms
  • embowers
  • embraces
  • emulates
  • encases
  • encloses
  • encompasses
  • encounter
  • encounters
  • endure
  • engages
  • enshrouds
  • envelops
  • enwraps
  • experience
  • expressions
  • exteriors
  • eyeball
  • facade
  • facades
  • facet
  • facings
  • false front
  • features
  • fellowmen
  • fellows
  • fictions
  • fight
  • fights
  • finish
  • fish
  • fishes
  • flinches
  • fly in face of
  • foreheads
  • foreparts
  • fringes
  • front
  • front onto
  • frontage
  • frontal
  • frontispiece
  • fronts
  • frown
  • frowns
  • gall
  • garbs
  • gaze
  • glare
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  • glosses
  • glower
  • glowers
  • go up against
  • grapple with
  • grimace
  • grimaces
  • grins
  • growls
  • guise
  • guises
  • guys
  • heads
  • hints
  • hominids
  • homos
  • honor
  • human beings
  • humanoids
  • humans
  • image
  • images
  • imitations
  • impertinence
  • implications
  • impostures
  • impressions
  • impudence
  • incloses
  • individuals
  • insinuations
  • invests
  • kisser
  • kissers
  • laps
  • level
  • light
  • likenesses
  • line
  • lineaments
  • lives
  • look
  • looks
  • lours
  • lowers
  • make a stand
  • make-belief
  • make-believe
  • makeup
  • manners
  • mantles
  • map
  • margins
  • mask
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  • masquerades
  • meet
  • meets
  • men
  • miens
  • mortals
  • moues
  • mouths
  • mows
  • mug
  • mugs
  • names
  • neighbors
  • obverse
  • oppose
  • opposes
  • outbraves
  • outfaces
  • outsides
  • outwards
  • overlay
  • overlays
  • overlook
  • overlooks
  • overspreads
  • paint
  • pans
  • parties
  • patinae
  • patinas
  • people
  • personages
  • personalities
  • physiognomies
  • physiognomy
  • plaster
  • polish
  • poses
  • pout
  • pouts
  • presences
  • presentation
  • prestige
  • presumption
  • pretences
  • pretenses
  • profile
  • pusses
  • redecorate
  • refinish
  • remodel
  • repels
  • representations
  • reputation
  • resemblances
  • resist
  • resists
  • rictuses
  • rims
  • risk
  • rivals
  • robes
  • run into
  • scoffs
  • scouts
  • scowl
  • scowls
  • seeming
  • seemings
  • self-respect
  • selves
  • semblance
  • semblances
  • shapes
  • sheathe
  • sheathes
  • sheaths
  • shells
  • shingle
  • show
  • showing
  • shows
  • shrouds
  • side
  • sides
  • silhouette
  • simpers
  • simulacrum
  • simulations
  • skin
  • skins
  • skirts
  • slobs
  • smiles
  • smirk
  • smirks
  • smooth
  • snarls
  • sneers
  • snoots
  • social position
  • somebodies
  • sons of man
  • sorts
  • souls
  • specimens
  • square off
  • squinches
  • stand
  • standing
  • stands
  • stands up to
  • stare
  • stares
  • stiffs
  • stomach
  • submit
  • suffer
  • suggestions
  • surface
  • surfaces
  • surrounds
  • sustain
  • swallow
  • swathes
  • take
  • take it
  • take on
  • take the bull by the horns
  • takes on
  • tell off
  • things
  • tolerate
  • top
  • tops
  • touches
  • veil
  • veils
  • veneer
  • veneers
  • venture
  • visage
  • visages
  • watch
  • wights
  • winces
  • withstand
  • withstands
  • wraps

gavels

  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • beetles
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bludgeons
  • canes
  • clubs
  • crabsticks
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • hammers
  • hickories
  • knobkerries
  • maces
  • mallets
  • mauls
  • nightsticks
  • rattans
  • rods
  • rungs
  • saps
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • sledgehammers
  • staffs
  • staves
  • switches
  • truncheons
  • waddies
  • walking sticks
  • whangees

hammers

  • abates
  • abuses
  • admonishes
  • assails
  • assaults
  • attacks
  • bad-mouths
  • bangs
  • bashes
  • bastes
  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • batters
  • bawls out
  • beans
  • beats
  • beats up on
  • beetles
  • belabors
  • belittles
  • belts
  • berates
  • besets
  • biffs
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • blames
  • blasts
  • bludgeons
  • boasts
  • bobs
  • bonks
  • bops
  • boxes
  • brains
  • buffets
  • bumps
  • bungs
  • bungs up
  • bunts
  • busts
  • butts
  • calls down
  • canes
  • carves
  • castigates
  • censures
  • chases
  • chastises
  • chews out
  • chides
  • chisels
  • chops
  • claps
  • clips
  • clobbers
  • clocks
  • clouts
  • clubs
  • coins
  • condemns
  • conks
  • cowhides
  • crabsticks
  • cracks
  • creams
  • criticizes
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • crucifies
  • cudgels
  • cuffs
  • curries
  • cuts
  • decks
  • denounces
  • disparages
  • disses
  • does
  • draws
  • dresses down
  • drubs
  • dumps
  • excoriates
  • fashions
  • faults
  • fells
  • fibs
  • flagellates
  • flails
  • flays
  • flicks
  • flogs
  • floors
  • forges
  • forms
  • fustigates
  • gavels
  • gores
  • graves
  • hangs one on
  • harangues
  • hews
  • hickories
  • hides
  • hits
  • horsewhips
  • jabs
  • jaws
  • jostles
  • keelhauls
  • kicks
  • knaps
  • kneads
  • knees
  • knobkerries
  • knocks
  • knocks down
  • lacerates
  • laces
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • lams
  • lashes
  • lathers
  • lays into
  • lays on
  • leathers
  • lectures
  • levels
  • licks
  • maces
  • maims
  • mallets
  • mangles
  • mauls
  • mints
  • mocks
  • models
  • molds
  • mutilates
  • nails
  • nightsticks
  • paddles
  • pans
  • pastes
  • pats
  • pelts
  • peppers
  • pistol-whips
  • planishes
  • pokes
  • pommels
  • pounds
  • prods
  • pummels
  • punches
  • punches out
  • pushes
  • puts down
  • rabbit-punches
  • rags
  • raids
  • raps
  • rates
  • rattans
  • rawhides
  • rebukes
  • reprehends
  • reprimands
  • reproaches
  • reproves
  • reviles
  • ridicules
  • rods
  • roughs
  • rungs
  • rushes
  • saps
  • scoffs
  • scolds
  • scores
  • scorns
  • scourges
  • scuffs
  • sculpts
  • sculptures
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • shoves
  • skulls
  • slams
  • slaps
  • slashes
  • slates
  • sledgehammers
  • sledges
  • slogs
  • slugs
  • smacks
  • smashes
  • smites
  • socks
  • spanks
  • spears
  • stabs
  • staffs
  • stamps
  • staves
  • storms
  • straps
  • strikes
  • strokes
  • sucker punches
  • swats
  • swipes
  • switches
  • tags
  • takes to task
  • tans
  • taps
  • thrashes
  • threshes
  • thumps
  • thwacks
  • tongue-lashes
  • tromps
  • truncheons
  • upbraids
  • vituperates
  • waddies
  • walking sticks
  • wallops
  • whacks
  • whales
  • whams
  • whangees
  • whaps
  • whips
  • whomps
  • whops
  • whups
  • works
  • works over
  • wounds
  • zaps

makes a face

  • contorts
  • deforms
  • frowns
  • gapes
  • gazes
  • glares
  • glooms
  • glowers
  • grimaces
  • growls
  • lours
  • lowers
  • mouths
  • mugs
  • ogles
  • pouts
  • pulls a face
  • scowls
  • simpers
  • smirks
  • snarls
  • sneers
  • stares
  • twists
  • warps

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