The press secretary faced a salvo of questions from the reporters.
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Salvo
//ˈsælvəʊ//
Synonyms for "salvo" (106 found)
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Translations
62 translations across 34 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- համազարկ noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yaylım noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Belarusian
1 entries- залп noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Bulgarian
1 entries- залп noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Catalan
2 entries- salva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- salva noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 齊射 /齐射 noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Czech
4 entries- salva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- salva noun (any volley, as in an argument or debate)
- salva noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
- výbuch noun (any volley, as in an argument or debate)
Danish
1 entries- salve noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Dutch
4 entries- eresalvo noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
- saluutschoten noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
- salvo noun (An exception)
- salvo noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Finnish
4 entries- salvo noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- tulitus noun (any volley, as in an argument or debate)
- yhteislaukaus noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- yhteislaukaus noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
French
1 entries- salve noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Georgian
1 entries- ზალპი noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
German
3 entries- Salve noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- Salve noun (any volley, as in an argument or debate)
- Salve noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
Greek
1 entries- ομοβροντία noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Indonesian
1 entries- salvo noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
Italian
2 entries- salva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- salva noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
Japanese
1 entries- 斉射 noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Kazakh
1 entries- дүркін noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Korean
1 entries- 일제 사격 noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Latvian
1 entries- zalve noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Lithuanian
1 entries- salvė noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Macedonian
3 entries- плотун noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- рафал noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- салва noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Māori
2 entries- waipū noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- waiwaipū noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Persian
1 entries- آتش همزمان noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Polish
4 entries- salwa noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- salwa noun (any volley, as in an argument or debate)
- salwa noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
- wyjątek noun (An exception)
Portuguese
1 entries- salva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Romanian
2 entries- salvă noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- salvă noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
Russian
2 entries- залп noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- залп noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- plòtūn noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- plòtūn noun (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
- sȃlva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- пло̀тӯн noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Slovak
1 entries- salva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Slovene
1 entries- salva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Spanish
2 entries- andanada noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
- salva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Swedish
1 entries- salva noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Ukrainian
1 entries- залп noun (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.
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“Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”
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It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.
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