cannonade

Questions about cannonade

What does cannonade mean?

cannonade means "intense and continuous artillery fire". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cannonade?

cannonade has 3 syllables: can-no-nade. The stress falls on "can".

What is another word for cannonade?

Close synonyms include drumfire. 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 cannonade a common word?

cannonade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.