barricade
/ˈbæɹɪkeɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.09 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
noun
A place of confrontation.
noun
Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.
Example Sentences
- "Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley."
Etymology
The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: barricade, barricader
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbæɹɪkeɪd/
- British English: /ˈbæɹɪkeɪd/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
barricade tape
Barricade in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Frequently Paired Words
Barricade in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)