embankment meaning
ENWEmbankment
- Embankment may refer to:
- A levee, an artificial bank raised above the immediately surrounding land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or sea
- Embankment (transportation), in transportation, a raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area
- Embankment dam, a dam made of mounded earth and rock
- Land reclamation along river banks, usually marked by roads and walkways running along it, parallel to the river, as in:
- The Thames Embankment along the north side of the Thames River in London, England
- NounPLembankmentsSUF-ment
- a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road.
- a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The river washed over the embankment at several places.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of embankment in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -ment
- Words suffixed with -ment
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Morphemes
- en embankments
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "embankment" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.