breastwork

Questions about breastwork

What does breastwork mean?

breastwork means "fortification consisting of a low wall".

How many syllables are in breastwork?

breastwork has 3 syllables and divides as bre-as-twork under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for breastwork?

Close synonyms include parapet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breastwork a common word?

breastwork is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.