revetment

1. 1.

   a barrier against explosives

   Broaderbarrier
2. 2.

   a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment

   Synonymsrevetementstone facing

   Broaderfacing

   Part ofembankment

Other forms of revetment

plural

revetments·

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 revetment

What does revetment mean?

revetment means "a barrier against explosives". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revetment?

revetment has 3 syllables: re-vet-ment. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for revetment?

Close synonyms include revetement, stone facing. 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 revetment a common word?

revetment 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.