embankment
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- revetement part meronym
Related & opposite
- embank derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | embank |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | revetement |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hill |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | levee |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bulwark |