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floodwall

floodwall noun: a man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood.

Noun

floodwall (plural floodwalls)

  1. A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
    • The New Orleans levees and floodwalls were built to withstand a hypothetical storm […].2007 May 29, John Schwartz, “Can Science Outwit Storms Like Katrina?”, in New York Times

Forms of floodwall

pluralfloodwalls
alternative formflood wall

Origin of floodwall

From flood + wall.

Questions about floodwall

What does floodwall mean?
Floodwall means a man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood.
What part of speech is floodwall?
Floodwall is a noun.
What is the plural of floodwall?
The plural of floodwall is floodwalls.

Words near floodwall in the dictionary

  1. floodsheds
  2. floodtide
  3. floodtides
  4. floodtime
  5. floodtimes
  6. floodwall
  7. floodwalls
  8. floodwater
  9. floodwaters
  10. floodway
  11. floodways

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