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palisades

/palɪseɪdz/

palisades is the plural of palisade.

palisades is the third-person singular simple present indicative of palisade.

Meaning of palisade

Noun

palisade (plural palisades)

  1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
  2. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
    • We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
  3. A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
  4. An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.

See all 6 meanings of palisade

Proper noun capitalized: Palisades

the Palisades

  1. A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.
    • Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea.2022 February 3, Lucas Joel, “Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022
  2. A group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada, California.
  3. A mountain range of Napa County, California.
  4. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Pacific Palisades: a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Phrases with palisades

Questions about palisades

What does palisades mean?
Palisades means a line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.
What is palisades the plural of?
Palisades is the plural of palisade.
What part of speech is palisades?
Palisades is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce palisades?
Palisades is pronounced /palɪseɪdz/ (US).

Words near palisades in the dictionary

  1. palisade-hedge
  2. palisade-hedges
  3. palisade-tree
  4. palisade-trees
  5. palisaded
  6. palisades
  7. Palisades Park
  8. palisadic
  9. palisading
  10. palisadings
  11. palisado

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