cannonade
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
cannonade
- /ˌkænəˈneɪd/
- /ˈkænəˌneɪd/
Rhymes with -eɪd
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon + -ade.
noun cannonades
- The firing of artillery for a length of time. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.
- A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Not for a regiment's parade, / Nor evil laws or rulers made, / Blue Walden rolls its cannonade, […]
verb cannonades · cannonading · cannonaded
- To discharge artillery fire upon.
