Meaning

4 senses

  1. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence

    Barrikade

    баррика́даbarrikáda

    барика́даbarykáda

  2. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.

    Barrikade

    баррика́даbarrikáda, огражде́ниеograždénije

  3. (figuratively, in the plural)A place of confrontation.

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

More definitions
  • a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy
  • a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

Examples

54 sentences

  1. They barricaded themselves in the room.

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  2. The laborers formed a human barricade.

    deDie Arbeiter machten eine menschliche Absperrung. — Esperantostern

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  3. Tom barricaded himself in his room.

    ruТом забаррикадировался у себя в комнате. — marafon

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  4. Tom barricaded himself inside his room.

    ruТом забаррикадировался у себя в комнате. — marafon

    deTom verbarrikadierte sich in seinem Zimmer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. Why don't we barricade the door?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence:
Русский
By meaning 2
a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence:
an obstacle, barrier or bulwark:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence:

Origin

The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to

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

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Forms

plural: barricades
Singularbarricade
Pluralbarricades

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.:roadblock

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbarricade tape

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
barrelB1barrenB2barrierB2barring

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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