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say it: bahm-BAHRD-muhnt
bombardment is a noun meaning "the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
“a barrage of questions”
“a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake”
the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
“they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops”
“the shelling went on for hours without pausing”
the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)
an attack by dropping bombs
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 bombardment 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.