Barricade Meaning
/ˈbæɹɪkeɪd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
nounAn obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
Sentence Examples
The rebels made a barricade across the road.
The laborers formed a human barricade.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The protestors built a strong ____ across the street to block all traffic from passing.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The protesters built a ____ across the main road to stop the traffic.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere."
— 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
"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."
— 2019, Roshini Sharma, Dr. Scoop and The N.E.R.D.S.: The Frankfurter of Doom:
"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."
— 2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:
"I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow her to the barricades on that because I think that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has to undermine a patriarchal and heterosexist assumption or two."
— 1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6:
"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."
— 1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter X, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The protestors built a strong ____ across the street to block all traffic from passing.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The protesters built a ____ across the main road to stop the traffic.