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English

Noun

cannonade (plural cannonades)

• The firing of artillery for a length of time.
  • ✤ A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.¹
• (figuratively) A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
  • ✤ Not for a regiment’s parade,/Nor evil laws or rulers made,/Blue Walden rolls its cannonade, […]²

Verb

cannonade (third-person singular simple present cannonades, present participle cannonading, simple past and past participle cannonaded)

• To discharge artillery fire upon.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌkænəˈneɪd/, /ˈkænəˌneɪd/³⁴
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -eɪd

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Footnotes

1. 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC: ↩

2. 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 11: ↩

3. Szigetvári, Peter; Lindsey, Geoff (2013–2022), “cannonade”, in Current British English: searchable transcriptions (CUBE) ‎${}^{[1]}$ ↩

4. Walker, John (1791), “Cannonade”, in *A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] *, London: G. G. J. and J. Robinſon […] and T. Cadell, →OCLC, page 150. ↩