| 1. | a suffix found in nouns denoting action or process or a person or persons acting, appearing in loanwords from French and sometimes from Spanish (cannonade; fusillade; renegade), but also attached to native stems: blockade; escapade; masquerade. |
| 2. | a noun suffix indicating a drink made of a particular fruit, normally a citrus: lemonade. |
| -ade suff. A sweetened beverage of: limeade. [Middle English, from Old French, ultimately from Latin -āta, feminine of -ātus, -ate; see -ate1.] |
