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barricade

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See also: barricadé

English

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Etymology

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The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form.[1] The verb is from the noun or French barricader.[2]

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Noun

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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:
      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.
    • 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.
    • 1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6:
      I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow her to the barricades on that because I think that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has to undermine a patriarchal and heterosexist assumption or two.
  4. (figuratively) Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.

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Verb

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

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

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References

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  1. ^ “barricade, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “barricade, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French barricade, from Italian barricata.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌbɑ.riˈkaː.də/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bar‧ri‧ca‧de
  • Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

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

  1. a barricade [from early 17th c.]
    Synonyms: barricadering, versperring

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Descendants

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

French

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Etymology 1

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From barrique (“cask”) +‎ -ade (“group”). So named after the first street barricades in Paris, which were composed of casks filled with earth, paving stones, etc.[1]

Noun

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barricade f (plural barricades)

  1. barricade
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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barricade

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

References

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  1. ^ “barricado, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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