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# embankment

noun (an embankment, embankments)

«embankment» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A long bank of earth or stone built to carry a road or railway, or to stop a river from flooding. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#m1)
2. A raised wall or path along a river, such as the Thames Embankment in London. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#m2)

### In the lessons

In geography and science lessons embankments are flood defences and transport works. In The Wind in the Willows Toad on the run hides near a railway embankment. Safety: railway embankments are dangerous places to play.

### Examples

- The train ran along a high embankment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#x1)
- The river burst over the embankment in the flood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#x2)
- We walked along the Thames Embankment in London. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#x3)
- Workers built an embankment to protect the town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#x4)
- Never play on the railway embankment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#x5)
- Grass and wild flowers grew on the steep embankment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#x6)
- After a time she re-appeared as a bamboo growing on the embankment of the tank in which she had been drowned. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/#x7)

### Note

Countable: an embankment, two embankments. Related: bank (the side of a river), dyke or levee (US) for flood banks.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «embankment» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embankment/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«embankment» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/embankment.html) on Mova free.