bridgehead

English

Etymology

bridge +‎ -head; A calque translation of the French tête de pont.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪdʒhɛd/

Noun

bridgehead (plural bridgeheads)

1. An area around the end of a bridge.
2. (military) A fortification around the end of a bridge.
3. (military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
4. (chemistry) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms

Related terms

• (military): beachhead
• (chemistry): dibridgehead

Translations

area around the end of a bridge

• Bulgarian: предмостие n (predmostie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橋頭／桥头 (zh) (qiáotóu), 桥头 (zh) (qiáotóu)

• Finnish: sillanpää
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• Hungarian: hídfő (hu)
• Irish: ceann droichid m
• Serbo-Croatian: mostobran m
• Welsh: pen y bont m

fortification

• Finnish: sillanpääasema (fi)
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• Serbo-Croatian: mostobran m

area of ground on the enemy's side of an obstacle

• Arabic: رَأْس جِسْر (raʔs jisr)
• Bulgarian: предмостие n (predmostie)
• Czech: předmostí (cs) n
• Finnish: sillanpää, sillanpääasema (fi)
• French: tête de pont (fr) f
• German: Brückenkopf (de) m
• Greek: προγεφύρωμα (el) n (progefýroma)
• Irish: ceann droichid m
• Italian: testa di ponte f
• Japanese: 橋頭堡 (ja) (きょうとうほ, kyōtōho)
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• Macedonian: мостобран m (mostobran)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brohode n, bruhode n

  Nynorsk: bruhovud n

• Polish: przyczółek (pl) m
• Portuguese: cabeça de ponte f
• Russian: плацда́рм (ru) m (placdárm)
• Serbo-Croatian: mostobran m
• Swedish: brohuvud (sv) n
• Welsh: troedle m

See also

• airhead
• beachhead
• railhead