🇬🇧 Mace meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A mace is a strong, heavy stick that has sharp or spiky metal parts on the top. Long ago, knights and soldiers used maces in battles to hit enemy armor, because the spikes and weight could crush metal. Today, real maces are mostly found in museums, stories, or parades, not in everyday life.

The tiny squire tried to lift the huge mace, made a heroic grunt, and only managed to lift his eyebrows.

The knight polished his mace until it shone so brightly that enemies surrendered just to stop squinting.

The knight said, “Fear my mace!” and the dragon replied, “I fear your breath more, honestly.”

In the video game, my character’s mace was so heavy it took three minutes just to wave hello with it.

Real maces were used in the Middle Ages to crush armor, but today they mostly live quietly in museums, not on the heads of grumpy knights.

The village guard swung his mace and the thief froze. The spiked iron head of the mace flashed; the maid grabbed a broom but the guard lowered his mace. Children climbed a wall to watch as the mace struck the post, not the thief. The thief dropped the purse and fled; the crowd sighed at the heavy mace.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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