American English pronunciation
How to pronounce embankment
IPA transcription: [ɛm'bæŋkmənt]
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Noun
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a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
Usage examples
- The dam creating the lake, North Anna Dam, is a and earthen embankment dam.
- The dam is a high rock and earth-fill embankment dam.
- The loop construction made a railway embankment along one side of the village.
- Nests have also been noted in mud embankments.
- The murals are painted on the walls of the Metra tracks embankment.
- Before the construction of the Thames embankment, the street was right next to the Thames.
- Along the embankment of Treasury Place there are hydrangeas, ivy and flax.
- The people who lived there were known as "vaellingar", "those living on the embankment".
- It consists of the Victoria Embankment and Chelsea Embankment.
- The pier is flanked by sandy beaches and man-made rock and concrete embankments.