shield

item of armor carried to intercept attacks or projectiles
Product weapon_type Q131559
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shield

Summary

shield is a weapon type[1]. shield draws 1,140 Wikipedia views per month (weapon_type category, ranking #145 of 694).[2]

Key Facts

  • shield's instance of is recorded as weapon type[3].
  • shield is a type of body armor[4].
  • shield is a type of defensive weapon[5].
  • shield's Commons category is recorded as Shields[6].
  • shield's Unicode character is recorded as πŸ›‘[7].
  • shield's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Shields[8].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[11].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[12].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[13].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as EncyclopΓ¦dia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • shield's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19].
  • shield's different from is recorded as escutcheon[20].
  • shield's different from is recorded as cant[21].
  • shield's different from is recorded as Brustschild[22].
  • shield's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for shield include Shield of the Trinity[24], a diagram[25], founded in 1300[26]; Scutum[27], a constellation[28]; Italian scudo[29]; Bouclier[30], a destroyer[31]; aspidolite[32], a mineral species[33]; and Scutum Logistic[34], an enterprise[35], in Spain[36], founded in 2011[37], headquartered in Esplugues de Llobregat[38].

Why It Matters

shield draws 1,140 Wikipedia views per month (weapon_type category, ranking #145 of 694).[2] shield has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] shield is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

Entities named for shield include Shield of the Trinity[24], a diagram[25], founded in 1300[26]; Scutum[27], a constellation[28]; Italian scudo[29]; Bouclier[30], a destroyer[31]; aspidolite[32], a mineral species[33]; and Scutum Logistic[34], an enterprise[35], in Spain[36], founded in 2011[37], headquartered in Esplugues de Llobregat[38].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  2. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  3. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  4. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  5. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  6. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. β†’ on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  4. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  5. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  6. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  7. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  8. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site
  9. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. β†’ on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago Β· Twofivesixbot bot Β· 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata β†—
    Instance of β†’ weapon type
    Topic's main category β†’ Category:Shields
    Aliases β†’ β€”
    Subclass of β†’ body armor, defensive weapon
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 3184, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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