cannonade
/ˌkænəˈneɪd/noun, verb
cannonade is a noun meaning “The firing of artillery for a length of time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-N-N-O-N-A-D-E, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cannonade is cannonades.
What does cannonade mean?
noun
- 1
The firing of artillery for a length of time.
- 2
A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
verb
- 1
To discharge artillery fire upon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cannonade?
- /ˌkænəˈneɪd/
- /ˈkænəˌneɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cannonade.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cannonade
- cannonades plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cannonading participle, present
- cannonaded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cannonade?
Cannonade appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cannonade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense firing of artillery:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cannonade come from?
Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon + -ade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).