breakwater

See also break water

English

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /bɹeɪkwɔːtə/

Noun

breakwater (plural breakwaters)

1. a construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside
2. (nautical) a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers
3. On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.

Translations

construction in or around a harbour

• Bulgarian: вълнолом (bg) (vǎlnolóm) m 
• Catalan: escullera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防波堤 (cmn) (fángbōdī)

• Czech: vlnolam (cs) m
• Dutch: golfbreker m, (rare) breekwater m and f
• Finnish: aallonmurtaja (fi)
• French: brise-lames (fr) m
• German: Mole (de) f, Wellenbrecher (de) m
• Greek: κυματοθραύστης (el) (kymatothrástes) m 
• Hungarian: hullámtörő (hu)

• Irish: tonnchosc (ga) m
• Italian: frangiflutti (it) m
• Japanese: 防波堤 (ja) (ぼうはてい, bōhatei)
• Jèrriais: caûchie f
• Korean: 방파제 (ko) (bangpaje) (防波堤 (ko))
• Polish: falochron (pl) m
• Russian: волнорез (ru) (volnoréz) m , волнолом (ru) (volnolóm) m , мол (ru) (mol) m , насыпь (ru) (násypʹ) f 
• Spanish: rompeolas (es) m
• Ukrainian: хвилеріз (uk) (xvyleríz) m 
• Welsh: morglawdd (cy) m

low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship

• Dutch: breekwater m and f

the beach barrier

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防波堤 (cmn) (fángbōdī)

• German: Buhne (de) f

• Greek: κυματοθραύστης (el) (kymatothrástes) m 
• Russian: волнорез (ru) (volnoréz) m , волнолом (ru) (volnolóm) m 
• Spanish: rompeolas (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: שובר-גלים (shover-galym) m (1)
• Italian: frangiflutti m

• Korean: 방파제

Anagrams

• water break