Cannonade

Definitions: Cannonade

Cannonade

Noun

1. Intense and continuous artillery fire.

Verb

1. Attack with canons or artillery.

Date "cannonade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonym: Cannonade

Synonym: drumfire (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attack	Storm, storming; boarding, escalade; siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cannonade

English words defined with "cannonade": battle of Valmy ♦ Cannonading ♦ Valmy. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	This was what Enjolras caught, in the intervals of the cannonade and the musketry.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Cannonade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cannonade" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	9	117,287

Language		Translations for "cannonade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zjarr artilerie (cannonry), sulm (aggression, assault, attack, charge, dash, descent, drive, hit, inroad, mugging, offence, offensive, onfall, onset, onslaught, push, raid, razzia, rush, strike, thrust), batare (firing, salvo, shooting, volley). (various references)

Arabic		‏هاجم بالمدفعية, ‏رشق بالمدافع. (various references)

Bulgarian		каконада. (various references)

Czech		kanonáda, dìlostřelba (gunfire, shellfire). (various references)

Finnish		tykkien pauke (roar of guns). (various references)

French		canonner (cannon), canonnade. (various references)

German		kanonade (barrage, tirade). (various references)

Greek		κανονιοβολώ, κανονιοβολισμόσ (salvo). (various references)

Hebrew		�"רעש�" (bombardment, jolting, making noise, shaking, shelling, storming). (various references)

Hungarian		ágyúzás (gun fire, gunfire, shelling), ágyútűz (gunfire, shellfire). (various references)

Italian		cannoneggiare (batter, bombard), cannoneggiamento (gunfire), cannonata (cannon shot), bombardamento (BOMB, bombardment, bombing, shellfire, shelling). (various references)

Manx		cartharneeys. (various references)

Pig Latin		annonadecay

Portuguese		bombear (bomb, curve, pump), bombardeio (bombing, shelling), bombardear (bomb, bombard, shell, strafe). (various references)

Romanian		canonadã (gun fire, gunnery), bombarda (beset, besiege, blitz, bomb, bombard, flood, shell, strafe). (various references)

Russian		орудийный огонь (gunfire, gun-fire). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kanonada. (various references)

Spanish		cañoneo (battering, gunfire, shellfire, shooting). (various references)

Swedish		kanonad (cannonry), bombardera (batter, bomb, bombard, pelt, plaster, shell). (various references)

Turkish		topa tutmak (bear on, bear upon, bombard, cannon, hail, hail down, pound), bombardıman etmek (bomb, bombard, cannon, pump bullets into, strafe), bombardıman (bombardment, drum-fire, prang, salvo, salvo bombing, shelling). (various references)

Ukranian		стріляти з гармат, канонада (battery, cannonry), гарматний вогонь (cannonry, gun fire), вогонь (fire, shooting), обстріл (fusillade, gunning, strafing), злива (cloud-burst, deluge, downfall, drench, drencher, floodwaters, gush, hail, pour, scat, shower, soaker, spate). (various references)

Vietnamese		loạt súng đại bác. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cannonade": cannonaded, cannonades. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cannonade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cannodale, Cannondale, cannulate, cantonite. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-n-n-n-o"
	-1 letter: cannoned, nondance.
	-3 letters: acnode, ancone, canned, cannon, canoed, conned, deacon.
	-4 letters: acned, ancon, anode, caned, canna, canoe, canon, coden, coned, dance, donna, donne, nance, nonce, ocean.
	-5 letters: aced, acne, aeon, anna, anoa, anon, cade, cane, coda, code, coed, cone, conn, dace, dean, deco, dona, done, naan, nada, nana, neon, node, nona, none, odea, once.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-n-n-n-o"
	+1 letter: cannonaded, cannonades.
	+2 letters: nonadjacent.
	+3 letters: cannonballed, noncandidate.
	+4 letters: nonattendance, noncandidates.
	+5 letters: condensational, nonattendances, noncandidacies, noneducational, nonhandicapped, uncontaminated.
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