barricade

Borrowed from French barricade.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/

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barricade (plural barricades)

1. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
2. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
   • 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 2313581:

     Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.

   • 2019, Roshini Sharma, Dr. Scoop and The N.E.R.D.S: The Frankfurter of Doom:

     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.

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   • 2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:

     Salah will ask himself forever how he did not score at least one goal here. He might have nightmares featuring the face of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed.

3. (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.

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• barricade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Barricade in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

barricade (third-person singular simple present barricades, present participle barricading, simple past and past participle barricaded)

1. to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
2. to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port

• baricade (obsolete)

Borrowed from French barricade, from Italian barricata.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑ.riˈkaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: bar‧ri‧ca‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

barricade f (plural barricades or barricaden, diminutive barricadetje n)

1. A barricade. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: barricadering, versperring

• barricaderen

• Afrikaans: barrikade
• Negerhollands: barrikad, barkad
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: barikat (archaic)
• → Indonesian: barikadê

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁi.kad/

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• Homophones: barricadent, barricades

barrique +‎ -ade

barricade f (plural barricades)

1. barricade

• barricader

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

barricade

1. inflection of barricader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “barricade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.