stockade

1. 1.

   surround with a stockade in order to fortify

   Broaderwall

Other forms of stockade

plural

stockades·

past tense

stockaded·

present participle

stockading·

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 stockade

What does stockade mean?

stockade means "fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stockade?

stockade has 2 syllables: stoc-kade. The stress falls on "stoc". In IPA it is /ˈstɑˌkeɪd/.

What is another word for stockade?

Close synonyms include concentration camp. 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 stockade a common word?

stockade 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 stockade?

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