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Synonyms for battery

  • noun

Most common

barrage bombardment shelling assault and battery stamp battery

All synonyms

Noun

1. Bombardment

bombardment, barrage, shelling

Other

assault and battery, troop, stamp battery

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.

    His flashlight takes two AA batteries.

Related words

Word family
battery-operated battery-powered
Phrases
car battery stamp battery solar battery assault and battery battery acid battery charger lazy battery effect dry cell battery
Is a kind of
violence

Forms

Plural
batteries → bombardments, barrages, shellings, troops…

Example sentences

  • barrage We've recently received a barrage of complaints.
  • bombardment Nothing would escape a Chinese bombardment in Taiwan.
  • shelling The British shelling stopped at seven o'clock.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
batterysteady
barragerising
bombardmentfalling
shellingrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
troop1
7 letters
barrage2
8 letters
shelling2
11 letters
bombardment3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (barrage2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
batterie
Español
batería
Deutsch
Schlagzeug
Català
bateria