firing squad

1. 1.

   a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution

   Synonymsfiring party

   Broadersquad

   military

Questions about firing squad

What does firing squad mean?

firing squad means "a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution".

What is another word for firing squad?

Close synonyms include firing party. 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 firing squad a common word?

firing squad 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.