What is the difference between medieval and bombard?
medieval | bombard |
Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from about 500 to about 1500.
Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages.
Archaic.
Brutal.
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Someone living in the Middle Ages.
A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
* Thank God for modern remedies, the medievals were often useless or even harmful.
a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
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(obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
(obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
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(poetic, rare) A bombardment.
(music) A bombardon.
To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
(figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
(physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
As nouns the difference between medieval and bombard
is that medieval is someone living in the middle ages while bombard is a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.As a adjective medieval
is of or relating to the middle ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500.As a verb bombard is
to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.medieval
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Alternative forms
* mediaeval, (used for archaizing effect although non-contemporary), medireview (autocorrected misspelling)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* medievaldom * medievalism * medievalist * medievalize * medireviewNoun
(en noun)bombard
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Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.