turret
/ˈtʌɹɪt/
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Northern England/ˈtʊɹɪt/
turret noun: a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
Noun
turret (plural turrets)
- A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
- Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
- There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8
- A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- A turret head.
- The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
turret meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
turret in Hindi
- turret
- बुर्ज burj
turret in Tamil
- அலங்கம்
turret in Urdu
- turret
- برج burj
turret in Bengali
- turret
- বুরজ buroj
More languagesFewer languages
- turret in Malayalam
- ചെറുഗോപുരം, താഴികക്കുടം, പ്രാസാദശൃംഗം
- turret in Kannada
- ಸಣ್ಣಗೋಪುರ, ಬುರುಜು, ಚಿಕ್ಕಗುಮ್ಮಟ, ಕಿರುಗುಮ್ಮಟ
- turret in Punjabi
- برج burj, ਬੁਰਜ burj
- turret in Persian
- برجک borjak
Examples of turret in a sentence
- The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement.
- The one-metre-long model of the Bismarck was built exactly to scale, with moving turrets.
- Because of the dangers of crumbling masonry, the castle turrets are no longer visitable by the public.
Synonyms of turret
Forms of turret
| plural | turrets |
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Origin of turret
From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.
Words formed from turret
- ball turret
- bell turret
- blister turret
- gun turret
- multiturret
- trading turret
- turret board
- turret clock
- turret deck
- turreted
- turret farm
- turret head
- turret lathe
- turretless
- turretlike
- turret revolver
- turret ship
- turret spider
- turret steamer
Phrases with turret
Questions about turret
- What does turret mean?
- Turret means a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
- What is turret in Hindi?
- Turret in Hindi is बुर्ज (burj). See Turret meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is turret?
- Turret is a noun.
- How do you pronounce turret?
- Turret is pronounced /ˈtʌɹɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of turret?
- The plural of turret is turrets.
Words near turret in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: turret (page history and authors); बुर्ज (Hindi) (page history and authors); turret (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); برج (Urdu) (page history and authors); বুরজ (Bengali) (page history and authors); turret (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); turret (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); برج (Punjabi) (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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