protective embankment

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   a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification

   Synonymsescarpmentescarpscarp

   Broaderfortification

Questions about protective embankment

What does protective embankment mean?

protective embankment means "a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification".

What is another word for protective embankment?

Close synonyms include escarpment, escarp, scarp. 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 protective embankment a common word?

protective embankment 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.