embankment
Syllables: em·bank·ment/ɪmˈbæŋkmənt//ɪmˈbeɪ̯ŋkmənt/
embankment noun: a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.
Noun
embankment (plural embankments)
- A long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.
- The work to be done under these specifications consists in furnishing all materials and erecting a stone embankment, an earth embankment, and a wharf. The stone embankment will contain about 216,000 tons of stone; the earth embankment about 285,000 cubic yards of broken stone, sand, or other...1886, anonymous author, California Legislature Journal Appendix
- Sink a trench so the pipe of your water-works will be below ground; have the pump and the mules which work it at such a point and so defended by an epaulement or traverse, or some other defensive embankment, as to shield them.1897, anonymous author, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, pages 981–
embankment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
embankment in Hindi
- artificial mound of earth and stone
- तटबंध taṭbandh, बंधा bandhā
embankment in Tamil
- அணை, கட்டுக்கரை, கரை, கரையிடல், செய் கரை, வரப்பு
embankment in Urdu
- بندھ, پل
embankment in Telugu
- embankment
- కర kara
More languagesFewer languages
- embankment in Malayalam
- ചിറ ciṟa
- embankment in Kannada
- ಕಟ್ಟೆ, ಒಡ್ಡು, ಏರಿ, ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟು
- embankment in Tagalog
- pimpin
Examples of embankment in a sentence
- The work to be done under these specifications consists in furnishing all materials and erecting a stone embankment, an earth embankment, and a wharf.1886, anonymous author, California Legislature Journal Appendix:
- The oldest known dam, a small earth embankment structure built about six thousand years ago at Jawa in present-day Jordan, was designed to capture rainfall and increase agricultural production.2006, David P. Billington, Donald Conrad Jackson, Big Dams of the New Deal Era, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN:
- A Sacramento carjacking suspect was arrested in Truckee after police said he crashed a stolen vehicle down an embankment before running into a wooded area, officials said Tuesday.2026 August 18, Richard Ramos, “Sacramento carjacking suspect arrested in Truckee after crash”, in CBS News, archived from the original on...
Forms of embankment
| plural | embankments |
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Origin of embankment
From embank + -ment.
Words formed from embankment
- Victoria Embankment
Questions about embankment
- What does embankment mean?
- Embankment means a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.
- What is embankment in Hindi?
- Embankment in Hindi is तटबंध (taṭbandh), बंधा (bandhā). See Embankment meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use embankment in a sentence?
- The work to be done under these specifications consists in furnishing all materials and erecting a stone embankment, an earth embankment, and a wharf.
- What part of speech is embankment?
- Embankment is a noun.
- How do you pronounce embankment?
- Embankment is pronounced /ɪmˈbæŋkmənt/.
- What is the plural of embankment?
- The plural of embankment is embankments.
Words near embankment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: embankment (page history and authors); embankment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); embankment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కర (Telugu) (page history and authors); embankment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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