bombard
see also: Bombard
Pronunciation
Bombard
Proper noun
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see also: Bombard
Pronunciation
- Verb:
- Noun:
From Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde, from Latin bombus.
The modern pronunciation is from modern French bombarde.
Nounbombard (plural bombards)
- a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
- 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- […] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
- (poetic, rare) A bombardment.
- 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
- With mines and parallels contracts the space;
Then bids the battering floats his labors crown
And pour their bombard on the shuddering town
- (music) A bombardon.
- French: bombarde
- German: Bombarde, Donnerbüchse, Steinbüchse, Kartaune
- Portuguese: bombarda
- Russian: бомба́рда
- Spanish: bombarda
From French bombarder, from Middle French bombarde.
Verbbombard (bombards, present participle bombarding; simple past and past participle bombarded)
- To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
- The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight.
- (figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
- (figuratively) To continuously send or direct (at someone)
- I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.
- Please don't bombard me with questions right now, I'll answer them at the end of the statement.
- (physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
- French: bombarder
- German: bombardieren
- Portuguese: bombardear
- Russian: бомбарди́ровать
- Spanish: bombardear
- French: bombarder
- German: bombardieren
- Portuguese: bombardear
- Russian: бомбарди́ровать
- Spanish: bombardear
Bombard
Proper noun
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