barricade

noun
/ˌbæɹ.ɪˈkeɪd/UK/ˌbæɹ.ɪˈkeɪd/US/ˌbɛɹ.ɪˈkeɪd/

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.

  1. borrowed from barricader
  2. borrowed from barricade

Definitions

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

  2. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.

    • Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.
    • 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.
  3. A place of confrontation.

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live…

      Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.

    2. To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.

      • 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.
    3. To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA