cannonade

English

Etymology

From French canonnade.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

cannonade (plural cannonades)

Firing artillery in a large amount for a length of time .
- Prescott
  A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.
(figuratively) A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
- Ewerson
  Blue Walden rolls its cannonade.

Translations

firing artillery in a large amount for a length of time

Bulgarian: канонада f (kanonáda)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 砲擊 (zh), 炮击 (zh) (pàojī)
Finnish: tykistökeskitys
French: canonnade (fr) f
German: Kanonade (de) f

Icelandic: stórskotahríð f
Italian: cannoneggiamento (it) m
Japanese: 砲撃 (ja) (ほうげき, hōgeki)
Polish: kanonada (pl) f
Russian: канона́да (ru) f (kanonáda)

Verb

cannonade (third-person singular simple present cannonades, present participle cannonading, simple past and past participle cannonaded)

To discharge artillery fire.

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