barricade

The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form.^[1] The verb is from the noun or French barricader.^[2]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/
• (US, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/
• (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛɹɪˈkeɪd/

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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:

     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.

   • 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.
   • 1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6:

     I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow her to the barricades on that because I think that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has to undermine a patriarchal and heterosexist assumption or two.

4. (figuratively) Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.

• barricade tape

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

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

1. To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.
   • 1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter X, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80:

     I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley.

2. To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.

• baricade (obsolete)

Borrowed from French barricade, from Italian barricata.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑ.riˈkaː.də/

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

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

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

   Synonyms: barricadering, versperring

• barricaderen

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

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁi.kad/

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• Homophones: barricadent, barricades

From barrique (“cask”) +‎ -ade (“group”). So named after the first street barricades in Paris, which were composed of casks filled with earth, paving stones, etc.^[1]

barricade f (plural barricades)

1. barricade

• barricader

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

barricade

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

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