Noun: bombard
| Singular | bombard |
| Plural | bombards |
Sample Sentences
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They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. [1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:]
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[…] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:]
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With mines and parallels contracts the space;
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Then bids the battering floats his labors crown
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And pour their bombard on the shuddering town [1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:]
Nouns inflected like bombard
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”).
2. The modern pronunciation is from modern French bombarde. See: Middle English Nouns '
bombard', Latin Nouns '
bombus', French Nouns '
bombarde'.
Verbs referencing "bombard"
Spanish Nouns
bombero.