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Added 10 October 2026

escalade

/ˌɛskəˈleɪd/ noun

Latin root: scālae Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about escalade at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).

verb

Climb up and over.
They had to escalade canyons to reach their destination

Origin

Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.

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