Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "cannonball" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

battle cannon civil war civil war museum museum war

Derived Terms

cannonball effect cannonball fungus cannonball mangrove cannonball problem cannonball run cannonball tree cannonballer human cannonball

Derived From

ball cannon

Context

artillery military slang tennis

Has Property

explosive heavy

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

missile projectile

Type Of (IsA)

projectile

Related Terms

backflop bellyflop jack-knife rip entry

Related Terms

backflop bellyflop cannon careen dive flexed fused jack knife jump rapidly rip entry smoothbore

Used For

arming cannon cannon create destruction historical interest kill soldiers piece of defense system shoot shooting from cannon sink ship sinking ship sinking ships splash crowd warfare

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.