embrasure

1. 1.

   an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

   Synonymsportporthole

   Broaderopening

   ship

Other forms of embrasure

plural

embrasures·

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 embrasure

What does embrasure mean?

embrasure means "an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through".

How many syllables are in embrasure?

embrasure has 3 syllables: em-bra-sure. The stress falls on "em".

What is another word for embrasure?

Close synonyms include port, porthole. 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 embrasure a common word?

embrasure 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.