barricade
UK/ˈbæɹɪkeɪd/
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British/ˈbaɹɪkɛjd/
barricade noun: a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence.
Noun
barricade (plural barricades)
- A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
- An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
- Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC
- Her future friend from grade six, Millie Mirarch, was often caught in various parts of the school being told that she was extremely pretty —for a girl with teeth held together by a metal wire that protruded well beyond the barricade of her lips.2019, Roshini Sharma, Dr. Scoop and The N.E.R.D.S.: The Frankfurter of Doom
- A place of confrontation.
- I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow her to the barricades on that because I think that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has...1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6
- Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.
Verb
barricade (third-person singular simple present barricades, present participle barricading, simple past and past participle barricaded)
- To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.
- I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley.1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter X, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80
- To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.
barricade meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
barricade in Hindi
- barricade
- रुकावट rukāvaṭ, बाँध bāndh
barricade in Tamil
- தடுப்புவேலி
barricade in Marathi
- बॅरिकेड
barricade in Urdu
- barricade
- رکاوٹ rukāvaṭ, بادھا bādhā
More languagesFewer languages
- barricade in Bengali
- ব্যারিকেড, অস্থায়ী প্রতিবন্ধক
- barricade in Telugu
- బారికేడ్, బ్యారికేడ్
- barricade in Malayalam
- തടസ്സമുണ്ടാക്കാനായി കെട്ടുന്ന വേലി
- barricade in Kannada
- ತಡಪು
- barricade in Odia
- ବ୍ଯ଼ାରିକେଡ୍ କରିବା
- barricade in Nepali
- ब्यारिकेड गर्न
- barricade in Tagalog
- barikada
- barricade in Arabic
- مِتْرَاس mitrās
- barricade in Indonesian
- barikade
Examples of barricade in a sentence
- The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it.
- The police put up barricade tape around the crime scene.
- A man had barricaded himself inside the Chase Bank building in downtown Bakersfield around 1 p.m.
Forms of barricade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | barricades |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | barricades |
| present participle | barricading |
| past participle | barricaded |
| past | barricaded |
Origin of barricade
The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.
Words formed from barricade
Phrases with barricade
Questions about barricade
- What does barricade mean?
- Barricade means a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence.
- What is barricade in Hindi?
- Barricade in Hindi is रुकावट (rukāvaṭ), बाँध (bāndh). See Barricade meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is barricade?
- Barricade can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce barricade?
- Barricade is pronounced /ˈbæɹɪkeɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of barricade?
- The plural of barricade is barricades.
Words near barricade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: barricade (page history and authors); बाँध (Hindi) (page history and authors); barricade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barricade (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); بادھا (Urdu) (page history and authors); barricade (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barricade (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barricade (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barricade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); barricade (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barricade (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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