different between bulwark vs boulevard

English

Etymology

From Middle English bulwerk, from Middle Dutch bolwerk, bolwerc and Middle Low German bolwerk, equivalent to bole (“tree trunk”) +? work. Cognate with German Bollwerk, Danish bolværk, Dutch bolwerk. Doublet of boulevard (from French boulevard, from Dutch); cognate with Portuguese and Spanish baluarte and Italian baluardo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?l.w?k/
• (US) enPR: bo?ol'w?rk, bo?ol'wôrk, IPA^(key): /?b?l.w?k/, /?b?l.w??k/

Noun

bulwark (plural bulwarks)

1. A defensive wall or rampart.
2. A defense or safeguard.

   • The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence, […] the floating bulwark of the island.

3. A breakwater.
4. (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
5. (figuratively) Any means of defence or security.

Translations

Verb

bulwark (third-person singular simple present bulwarks, present participle bulwarking, simple past and past participle bulwarked)

1. (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
2. (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.

English

Etymology

From French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bu?.l??v??d/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?b?l?v??d/

Noun

boulevard (plural boulevards)

1. A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
2. The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): blvd., blvd, bd., bd, bl

Related terms

• boulevardier
• bulwark (doublet)

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, borrowed from Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bolværk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?ul?????d?]

Noun

boulevard

1. boulevard

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French bolevard, from Middle Dutch bolwerc (modern Dutch bolwerk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu.l??va?r/
• Hyphenation: bou?le?vard

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards, diminutive boulevardje n)

1. boulevard

Derived terms

• meubelboulevard
• woonboulevard

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: bulevar

French

Etymology

From Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.va?/

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. causeway
2. boulevard

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): (Europe): bd, Bd, bld, brd, bvd; (Québec): boul., boul

Descendants

• ? Spanish: bulevar
• ? Turkish: bulvar

Further reading

• “boulevard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bollevart (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from German Bollwerk or Middle Dutch.

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. (Jersey) bulwark

Spanish

Etymology

From French boulevard. Doublet of baluarte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bule?ba?d/, [bu.le???a?ð?]

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. boulevard