embankment

English

Noun

embankment (plural embankments)

1. a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road

Translations

artificial mound of earth and stone

• Albanian: argjinaturë (sq)
• Bulgarian: дига (bg) (diga) f, насип (bg) (nasip) m
• Dutch: waterkering (nl) f
• Finnish: valli (fi)
• French: chaussée (fr) f, talus (fr) m

• Polish: wał przeciwpowodziowy (pl)
• Russian: набережная (ru) (náberežnaja)
• Serbo-Croatian: zagat (sh) m
• Swedish: fördämning

Related terms

• embank
• Victoria Embankment