embankment
part of speech
noun (an embankment, embankments)
meaning for a pupil
1) A long bank of earth or stone built to carry a road or railway, or to stop a river from flooding. tree →
2) A raised wall or path along a river, such as the Thames Embankment in London. tree →
sense 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 →
- The river burst over the embankment in the flood. tree →
- We walked along the Thames Embankment in London. tree →
- Workers built an embankment to protect the town. tree →
- Never play on the railway embankment. tree →
- Grass and wild flowers grew on the steep embankment. tree →
- After a time she re-appeared as a bamboo growing on the embankment of the tank in which she had been drowned. tree →
note
Countable: an embankment, two embankments. Related: bank (the side of a river), dyke or levee (US) for flood banks.
Trees and pragmatics
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