Embankment

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  • noun. The act of embanking.
  • noun. A mound of earth or stone built to hold back water or to support a roadway.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
  • noun. A mound, bank, dike, or earthwork raised for any purpose, as to protect land from the inroads of the sea or from the overflow of a river, to carry a canal, road, or railway over a valley, etc.; a levee: as, the Thames embankment in London, England.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
  • noun. A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
    • Word Usage
    "+ '' the embankment is straight, deep as well as wide ''"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hill  mound  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    bulwark  levee  rampart  wall  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    berm  bluff  breakwater  causeway  dike  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    L  abutment  anchorage  anchorage ground  anthill  
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