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say it: BEECH-hed
beachhead is a noun meaning "a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation". It is pronounced /ˈbitʃˌhɛd/ — BEECH-hed. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
“they are presently attempting to gain a foothold in the Russian market”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for beachhead come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.