Barricade

Quick meaning: Barricade is a noun meaning A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence.

Meaning

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence.

More Meanings

1. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
2. (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.
3. (figuratively) Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.
4. To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.
5. To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.

Example Sentences

Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.

I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley.

Salah will ask himself forever how he did not score at least one goal here. He might have nightmares featuring the face of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed.

Her future friend from grade six, Millie Mirarch, was often caught in various parts of the school being told that she was extremely pretty —for a girl with teeth held together by a metal wire that protruded well beyond the barricade of her lips.

Word Forms

• barricades
• barricading
• barricaded

Synonyms for barricade

Depending on context, synonyms include bar, block, blockade, barricado, roadblock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include barricado, bar, blockade, block, roadblock, barrier.

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