drawbridge

1. 1.

   a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it

   Synonymslift bridge

   Broaderbridge

Other forms of drawbridge

plural

drawbridges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drawbridge

What does drawbridge mean?

drawbridge means "a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it".

How many syllables are in drawbridge?

drawbridge has 2 syllables: draw-bridge. The stress falls on "draw". In IPA it is /ˈdɹɔˌbɹɪdʒ/.

What is another word for drawbridge?

Close synonyms include lift bridge. 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 drawbridge a common word?

drawbridge is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with drawbridge?

3 words rhyme with drawbridge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.