barricade

1. 1.

   a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

   Synonymsroadblock

   Broaderbarrier
2. 2.

   a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy

   “they stormed the barricade”

   Broaderbarrier

Other forms of barricade

plural

barricades·

past tense

barricaded·

present participle

barricading·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barricade

What does barricade mean?

barricade means "render unsuitable for passage". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barricade?

barricade has 3 syllables: bar-ri-cade. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbæɹəˌkeɪd/.

What is another word for barricade?

Close synonyms include block, blockade, stop, block off, block up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barricade a common word?

barricade is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with barricade?

9 words rhyme with barricade. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.