broadside

1. 1.

   collide with the broad side of

   “her car broad-sided mine”

   Broaderhit

1. 1.

   toward a full side

   “a broadside attack”

   Similarside

1. 1.

   with a side facing an object

   “the train hit the truck broadside”

   “the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it”

Other forms of broadside

plural

broadsides·

past tense

broadsided·

present participle

broadsiding·

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 broadside

What does broadside mean?

broadside means "an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in broadside?

broadside has 2 syllables: broad-side. The stress falls on "broad". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɔdˌsaɪd/.

What is another word for broadside?

Close synonyms include circular, handbill, bill, broadsheet, flier. 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 broadside a common word?

broadside 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 broadside?

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