cannonade
/ˌkænəˈneɪd/
cannonade noun: the firing of artillery for a length of time.
Noun
cannonade (plural cannonades)
- The firing of artillery for a length of time.
- A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC
- A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
- Not for a regiment's parade, / Nor evil laws or rulers made, / Blue Walden rolls its cannonade, […]1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 11
Verb
cannonade (third-person singular simple present cannonades, present participle cannonading, simple past and past participle cannonaded)
cannonade meaning in Malayalam
cannonade in Malayalam
- bombardment, shelling, gunfire
- പീരങ്കിപ്രയോഗം, നിരന്തരമായ പീരങ്കി പ്രയോഗം, ഷെൽപ്രയോഗം, ഷെല്ലാക്രമണം, ബോംബുവർഷം, പീരങ്കിയിൽനിന്നു ചില്ലുകൾ വർഷിക്കൽ
Forms of cannonade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cannonades |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cannonades |
| present participle | cannonading |
| past participle | cannonaded |
| past | cannonaded |
Origin of cannonade
Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon + -ade.
Words formed from cannonade
Words that rhyme with cannonade
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- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
- embayed
Questions about cannonade
- What does cannonade mean?
- Cannonade means the firing of artillery for a length of time.
- What is cannonade in Malayalam?
- Cannonade in Malayalam is പീരങ്കിപ്രയോഗം, നിരന്തരമായ പീരങ്കി പ്രയോഗം, ഷെൽപ്രയോഗം. See Cannonade meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is cannonade?
- Cannonade can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cannonade?
- Cannonade is pronounced /ˌkænəˈneɪd/.
- What is the plural of cannonade?
- The plural of cannonade is cannonades.
Words near cannonade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cannonade (page history and authors); cannonade (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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