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grenadier
English
Etymology
From French grenadier, corresponding to grenade +? -ier.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???n??d??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
grenadier (plural grenadiers)
- A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the Grenadier Guards.
- Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
- Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
- Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies, Agrionoptera insignis and Lathrecista asiatica, of Asia and Australia.
Translations
Anagrams
- rereading
French
Etymology
grenade +? -ier
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.na.dje/
Noun
grenadier m (plural grenadiers)
- pomegranate tree
- (military) grenadier
Further reading
- “grenadier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dénigrera
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
grenadier m (definite singular grenadieren, indefinite plural grenadiere, definite plural grenadierne)
- a Grenadian (person from Grenada)
Related terms
- Grenada
- grenadisk
Swedish
Noun
grenadier c
- person from Grenada
Declension
Related terms
- Grenada
- grenadisk
- grenadiska
Anagrams
- girerande
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grenade
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pomum (“apple”) + granatum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????ne?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Noun
grenade (plural grenades)
- A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.
- (obsolete) A pomegranate.
- (heraldry) A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
- (slang) An unattractive girl.
Hyponyms
- grenado
- hand grenade
- rocket-propelled grenade
- Mills bomb
Derived terms
Related terms
- garnet
- grenado
- pomegranate
Translations
Verb
grenade (third-person singular simple present grenades, present participle grenading, simple past and past participle grenaded)
- To use grenade(s) upon.
- 2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43:
- Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.
- 2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 46:
- They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.
- 2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43:
Translations
Anagrams
- Redange, agender, angered, derange, en garde, enraged, grandee
French
Etymology
Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin gr?n?tum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.nad/
Noun
grenade f (plural grenades)
- pomegranate
- grenade
- insignia, badge
- (heraldry) pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry).
Derived terms
- grenadier
- grenadine
Further reading
- “grenade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dérange, dérangé
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?re?nade]
Noun
grenade f pl
- indefinite plural of grenad?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of grenad?
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