cannonade

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French canonnade.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

cannonade (plural cannonades)

1. 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.

2. (figurative) 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: канона́да f (kanonáda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 砲擊／炮击 (zh) (pàojī), 炮击 (zh) (pàojī)

• Finnish: tykistökeskitys
• French: canonnade (fr) f
• German: Kanonade (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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

1. To discharge artillery fire upon.