bridgehead

English

Etymology

Calque of French tête de pont, equivalent to bridge +‎ head.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒhɛd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

bridgehead (plural bridgeheads)

1. An area around the end of a bridge.
2. (military) A fortification around the end of a bridge.
3. (military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
   • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 243:

     He believed the invasion would happen elsewhere and it wasn't until late in the afternoon and long after the Allied forces had established a bridgehead that Hitler was convinced of the need to do something.

4. (physical chemistry) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms

Related terms

• (military): beachhead
• (chemistry): dibridgehead

Translations

area around the end of a bridge

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: رَأْس جِسْر m (raʔs jisr)
• Bulgarian: предмо́стие n (predmóstie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橋頭／桥头 (zh) (qiáotóu)

• Dutch: landhoofd (nl) n, bruggenhoofd (nl) n
• Finnish: sillanpää
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: hídfő (hu)
• Irish: ceann droichid m
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: cap de pod (ro) n
• Russian: тет-де-по́н m (tɛt-dɛ-pón), предмо́стье (ru) n (predmóstʹje), предмо́стие n (predmóstije), плацда́рм (ru) m (placdárm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мостобран m

  Roman: mostobran m

• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: brofäste (sv) n
• Ukrainian: плацда́рм (placdárm)
• Welsh: pen y bont m

fortification

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: bruggenhoofd (nl) n
• Finnish: sillanpääasema (fi)
• French: tête de pont (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: тет-де-по́н m (tɛt-dɛ-pón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мостобран m

  Roman: mostobran m

• Swedish: brohuvud (sv) n
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can

area of ground on the enemy's side of an obstacle

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: رَأْس جِسْر m (raʔs jisr)
• Armenian: պլացդարմ (hy) (placʻdarm)
• Belarusian: плацда́рм m (placdárm)
• Bulgarian: плацда́рм m (placdárm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橋頭堡／桥头堡 (zh) (qiáotóubǎo)

• Czech: předmostí (cs) n
• Danish: brohoved n
• Dutch: bruggenhoofd (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: platsdarm
• Finnish: sillanpää, sillanpääasema (fi)
• French: tête de pont (fr) f
• Georgian: პლაცდარმი (ka) (ṗlacdarmi)
• German: Brückenkopf (de) m
• Greek: προγεφύρωμα (el) n (progefýroma)
• Hungarian: hídfőállás (hu)
• Irish: ceann droichid m
• Italian: testa di ponte f
• Japanese: 橋頭堡 (ja) (きょうとうほ, kyōtōho)
• Kazakh: плацдарм (plasdarm)
• Korean: 교두보(橋頭堡) (ko) (gyodubo)
• Latvian: placdarms m
• Lithuanian: placdarmas m
• Macedonian: мостобран m (mostobran)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brohode n, bruhode n

  Nynorsk: bruhovud n

• Polish: przyczółek (pl) m
• Portuguese: cabeça de ponte f
• Romanian: cap de pod (ro) n
• Russian: плацда́рм (ru) m (placdárm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мостобран m

  Roman: mostobran m

• Slovak: predmostie n
• Slovene: mostišče n
• Swedish: brohuvud (sv) n
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: плацда́рм m (placdárm)
• Uzbek: platsdarm (uz)
• Welsh: troedle m

See also

• airhead
• beachhead
• railhead