seawall

Questions about seawall

What does seawall mean?

seawall means "a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away".

How many syllables are in seawall?

seawall has 3 syllables and divides as se-a-wall 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 seawall?

Close synonyms include breakwater, groin, groyne, mole, bulwark. 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 seawall a common word?

seawall 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.