bridgehead

1. 1.

   an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies

   “an attempt to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines”

   “the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar”

   Synonymsfoothold

   Broadercombat zone

   Narrowerairheadbeachhead
2. 2.

   a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy

   Broaderpost

Other forms of bridgehead

plural

bridgeheads·

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 bridgehead

What does bridgehead mean?

bridgehead means "an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bridgehead?

bridgehead has 2 syllables: brid-gehead. The stress falls on "brid". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪdʒˌhɛd/.

What is another word for bridgehead?

Close synonyms include foothold. 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 bridgehead a common word?

bridgehead is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 bridgehead?

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