bandolier
/ˌbændəˈlɪɹ/noun
bandolier is a noun meaning “An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-A-N-D-O-L-I-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bandolier is bandoliers.
What does bandolier mean?
noun
- 1
An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bandolier?
- US /ˌbændəˈlɪɹ/
- UK /ˌbændəˈlɪə/
Bandolier has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-bandoleer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bandolier
- bandoliers plural
- bandoleer
- bandelier
- bandileer
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bandolier?
Bandolier appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Bandolier in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an ammunition belt:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bandoulière, cartouchière, ceinture à munitions |
| German | Patronengurt, Bandelier, Bandolier, Bandalier |
| Portuguese | cartucheira, patrona, canana |
| Spanish | bandolera, canana, charpa, fornitura |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bandolier come from?
From earlier form bandollier, from Middle French bandoulliere, from Catalan bandolera, feminine derivative of bandoler (“member of a band of men”), from Catalan bàndol (“band, faction, party”), from Old Spanish bando.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).