Meanings
plural fusillades
- The simultaneous firing of a number of firearms.
- broadlyA rapid burst.
1 more example
But her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. If he could only find it before the thing outside got in. A perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door.
1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
present singular third person fusillades · participle present fusillading · participle past fusilladed · past fusilladed
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchfusillade
- Englishfusillade
From French fusillade, from fusiller (“shoot with a firearm”), from fusil (“rifle, gun”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian залп
- залп (zalp)the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
Esperanto pafado
- pafadothe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
French fusillade
- fusilladethe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
German Gewehrfeuer, Geschützsalve
- Gewehrfeuerthe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
- Geschützsalvethe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
- Schusswechselthe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
- Salvethe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
Hungarian sortűz
- sortűzthe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
Irish rúisc
- rúiscthe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
Māori waipū, waiwaipū
- waipūthe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
- waiwaipūthe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
Polish salwa
- salwathe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
Russian стрельба́
- стрельба́ (strelʹbá)the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
Spanish descarga, ráfaga
- descargathe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
- ráfagathe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
- ráfagaa rapid outburst
- torrentea rapid outburst
Turkish yaylım ateşi
- yaylım ateşithe simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with fusillade
Cite this entry
fusillade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fusillade
“fusillade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fusillade. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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