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bombard
English
Pronunciation
- Verb:
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?m?b??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?m?b??d/, /b?m?b??d/
- Noun:
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?m?b??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?m?b??d/
Etymology 1
From Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”).
Noun
bombard (plural bombards)
- a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
- They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
- (obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
- (obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- […] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- (poetic, rare) A bombardment.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Joel Barlow to this entry?)
- (music) A bombardon.
Translations
Etymology 2
From French bombarder, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard”)
Verb
bombard (third-person singular simple present bombards, present participle bombarding, simple past and past participle bombarded)
- To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
- (figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
- (figuratively) To continuously send or direct (at someone)
- (physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
Synonyms
- bomb
Translations
Derived terms
bombard From the web:
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bombardon
English
Etymology
French bombardon, from Italian bombardone.
Noun
bombardon (plural bombardons)
- (music) A brass instrument, the bass version of the tuba.
- (music) A bass instrument of the shawm family
- A organ pedal stop at 32' pitch which imitates the sound of the above mentioned instruments.
See also
- bombard
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French bombardon, from Italian bombardone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?m.b?r?d?n/
- Hyphenation: bom?bar?don
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
bombardon m (plural bombardons, diminutive bomdardonnetje n)
- bombardon, bass tuba
French
Etymology
From Italian bombardone
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??.ba?.d??/
Noun
bombardon m (plural bombardons)
- bombardon, certain bass instruments, notably a tuba
Further reading
- “bombardon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
From French bombardon.
Noun
bombardon n (plural bombardoane)
- bombardon
Declension
bombardon From the web:
- what does bombarded mean
- what does bombardon
- bombarded meaning
- definition bombard
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