embayment
/ɪmˈbeɪmənt/
embayment noun: a bay. (the water).
Noun
embayment (plural embayments)
- A bay. (the water)
- The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 121
- The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
- A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
- The process by which a bay is formed.
Forms of embayment
| plural | embayments |
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Origin of embayment
From em- + bay + -ment.
Questions about embayment
- What does embayment mean?
- Embayment means a bay. (the water).
- What part of speech is embayment?
- Embayment is a noun.
- How do you pronounce embayment?
- Embayment is pronounced /ɪmˈbeɪmənt/.
- What is the plural of embayment?
- The plural of embayment is embayments.
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