barricade

barricade

See also: barricadé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French barricade.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/

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Noun

barricade (plural barricades)

1. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
2. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
   • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], OCLC 2313581:

     Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.

   • 2019, Roshini Sharma, Dr. Scoop and The N.E.R.D.S: The Frankfurter of Doom:

     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.

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   • 2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:

     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.

3. (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.

Derived terms

• barricade tape

Translations

a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence

Albanian: barrikadë (sq) f Arabic: مِتْرَاس‎ m (mitrās) Armenian: բարիկադ (hy) (barikad), պատնեշ (hy) (patneš) Belarusian: барыка́да f (barykáda) Bulgarian: барика́да (bg) f (barikáda) Catalan: barricada (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 路障 (zh) (lùzhàng) Crimean Tatar: barrikada Czech: barikáda f Danish: barrikade (da) c Dutch: barricade (nl) f Esperanto: barikado Estonian: barrikaad Finnish: barrikadi (fi), katusulku (fi) French: barricade (fr) f Galician: barricada (gl) f Georgian: ბარიკადა (bariḳada) German: Barrikade (de) f Hungarian: barikád (hu) Indonesian: barikade (id) Irish: baracáid f, bábhún m Italian: barricata (it) f Japanese: バリケード (barikēdo) Korean: 바리케이드 (ko) (barikeideu) Lithuanian: barikada f Norwegian: Bokmål: barrikade m Nynorsk: barrikade m Occitan: barricada (oc) f Polish: barykada (pl) f Portuguese: barricada (pt) Russian: баррика́да (ru) f (barrikáda) Slovak: barikáda f Spanish: barricada (es) f Swedish: barrikad (sv) c Turkish: barikat (tr) Ukrainian: барика́да (uk) f (barykáda) Yiddish: באַריקאַדן‎ f pl (barikadn)

an obstacle, barrier or bulwark

Albanian: barrikadë (sq) f Armenian: բարիկադ (hy) (barikad), պատնեշ (hy) (patneš) German: Barrikade (de) f Kurdish: Central Kurdish: سەنگەر‎ (ku) (senger) Norwegian: barrikade m Polish: barykada (pl) f Russian: баррика́да (ru) f (barrikáda), огражде́ние (ru) n (ograždénije) (доро́жное) Swedish: barrikad (sv) c

See also

• barricade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Barricade in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

barricade (third-person singular simple present barricades, present participle barricading, simple past and past participle barricaded)

1. to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
2. to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port

Translations

to close or block a road etc., using a barricade

Bulgarian: барикади́рам (bg) (barikadíram) French: barricader (fr) German: verbarrikadieren (de) Norwegian: barrikadere (no) Polish: barykadować (pl) impf, zabarykadować pf Russian: баррикади́ровать (ru) impf (barrikadírovatʹ), забаррикади́ровать (ru) pf (zabarrikadírovatʹ) Sicilian: barrijari Swedish: barrikadera (sv), barrikera (sv)

to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port

Bulgarian: блоки́рам (bg) (blokíram) Norwegian: barrikadere (no), blokkere (no), stenge inne Polish: barykadować (pl) impf, zabarykadować pf Russian: блоки́ровать (ru) impf (blokírovatʹ), заблоки́ровать (ru) pf (zablokírovatʹ) Swedish: blockera (sv)

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• baricade (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French barricade, from Italian barricata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑ.riˈkaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: bar‧ri‧ca‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

barricade f (plural barricades or barricaden, diminutive barricadetje n)

1. A barricade. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: barricadering, versperring

Derived terms

• barricaderen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: barrikade
• Negerhollands: barrikad, barkad
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: barikat (archaic)
• → Indonesian: barikadê

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁi.kad/

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• Homophones: barricadent, barricades

Etymology 1

barrique +‎ -ade

Noun

barricade f (plural barricades)

1. barricade

Derived terms

• barricader

Descendants

• → Albanian: barrikadë
• → Catalan: barricada
• → Crimean Tatar: barrikada
• → Danish: barrikade
• → English: barricade
• → Galician: barricada
• → German: Barrikade
• → Irish: baracáid
• → Norwegian: barrikade
• → Portuguese: barricada
• → Russian: баррика́да (barrikáda)
• → Spanish: barricada
• → Swedish: barrikad
• → Turkish: barikat

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

barricade

1. inflection of barricader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “barricade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.