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BATTLEMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns

Synonyms:

battlement; crenelation; crenellation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("battlement" is a kind of...):

bulwark; rampart; wall (an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "battlement"):

crenel; crenelle (a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement)

merlon (a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement)

Holonyms ("battlement" is a part of...):

fort; fortress (a fortified defensive structure)

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