salvo

Speech parts

1. salvo - Noun

2. salvo - Verb

3. Salvo - Proper noun

Meaning

An exception; a reservation; an excuse.

A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.

A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

burst volley fusillade sally attack fire broadside bang hailstorm shot round exception rain firing tribute
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Antonyms

speck humbug bit shade scrap enlist
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Hypernyms

fire firing burst cheer outburst flare-up

Derivatives

salvos salvoes

Anagrams

Lovas slavo

Examples

To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day. Nelson Rodrigues

That was a salvo of something against something. China Miéville

our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise Source: Internet

there was a salvo of approval Source: Internet

A battery of four BM-13 launchers could fire a salvo in 7–10 seconds that delivered 4.35 tons of high explosives over a convert impact zone, Zaloga, p 154. making its power roughly equivalent to that of 72 guns. Source: Internet

A convert shell from the third salvo struck Invincible s Q-turret amidships, detonating the magazines below and causing her to blow up and sink. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

salvinorin A salviol salvipisone salvoes salvor salvos