bridgehead

bridgehead

English

Etymology

Calque of French tête de pont, equivalent to bridge +‎ head.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒhɛd/

Noun

bridgehead (plural bridgeheads)

1. An area around the end of a bridge.
2. (military) A fortification around the end of a bridge.
3. (military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
4. (chemistry) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms

Related terms

• (military): beachhead
• (chemistry): dibridgehead

Translations

area around the end of a bridge

Arabic: رَأْس جِسْر‎ m (raʾs jisr) Bulgarian: предмо́стие n (predmóstie) Chinese: Mandarin: 橋頭／桥头 (zh) (qiáotóu) Finnish: sillanpää Hungarian: hídfő (hu) Irish: ceann droichid m Romanian: cap de pod (ro) n Russian: тет-де-по́н m (tɛt-dɛ-pón), предмо́стье (ru) n (predmóstʹje), предмо́стие n (predmóstije), плацда́рм (ru) m (placdárm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мостобран m Roman: mostobran m Swedish: brofäste (sv) n Ukrainian: плацда́рм (placdárm) Welsh: pen y bont m

fortification

Finnish: sillanpääasema (fi) French: tête de pont (fr) f Russian: тет-де-по́н m (tɛt-dɛ-pón) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мостобран m Roman: mostobran m Swedish: brohuvud (sv) n

area of ground on the enemy's side of an obstacle

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: رَأْس جِسْر‎ m (raʾs jisr) Armenian: պլացդարմ (hy) (placʿdarm) Belarusian: плацда́рм m (placdárm) Bulgarian: плацда́рм m (placdárm) Chinese: Mandarin: 橋頭堡／桥头堡 (zh) (qiáotóubǎo) Czech: předmostí (cs) n Danish: brohoved n Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: platsdarm Finnish: sillanpää, sillanpääasema (fi) French: tête de pont (fr) f Georgian: პლაცდარმი (ka) (ṗlacdarmi) German: Brückenkopf (de) m Greek: προγεφύρωμα (el) n (progefýroma) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Irish: ceann droichid m Italian: testa di ponte f Japanese: 橋頭堡 (ja) (きょうとうほ, kyōtōho) Kazakh: плацдарм (plasdarm) Korean: 교두보(橋頭堡) (ko) (gyodubo) Latvian: placdarms m Lithuanian: placdarmas m Macedonian: мостобран m (mostobran) Norwegian: Bokmål: brohode n, bruhode n Nynorsk: bruhovud n Polish: przyczółek (pl) m Portuguese: cabeça de ponte f Romanian: cap de pod (ro) n Russian: плацда́рм (ru) m (placdárm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мостобран m Roman: mostobran m Slovak: predmostie n Slovene: mostišče n Swedish: brohuvud (sv) n Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: плацда́рм m (placdárm) Uzbek: platsdarm (uz) Welsh: troedle m

See also

• airhead
• beachhead
• railhead