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beachhead has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation
“the Germans were desperately trying to contain the Anzio beachhead”
an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments
“the town became a beachhead in the campaign to ban smoking outdoors”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for beachhead come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.