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bridgeheads

bridgeheads is the plural of bridgehead.

Meaning of bridgehead

Noun

bridgehead (plural bridgeheads)

  1. An area around the end of a bridge.
  2. A fortification around the end of a bridge.
  3. An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
    • He believed the invasion would happen elsewhere and it wasn't until late in the afternoon and long after the Allied forces had established a bridgehead that Hitler was convinced of the need to do something.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 243
  4. (physical) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms

Questions about bridgeheads

What is bridgeheads the plural of?
Bridgeheads is the plural of bridgehead.

Words near bridgeheads in the dictionary

  1. Bridgeforths
  2. Bridgegate
  3. Bridgeghazi
  4. Bridgehampton
  5. bridgehead
  6. bridgeheads
  7. bridgekeeper
  8. bridgekeepers
  9. Bridgeland
  10. Bridgelands
  11. bridgeless

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