The breakwater had no effect against the tsunami.
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Breakwater
//ˈbɹeɪkˌwɔːtə//
Synonyms for "breakwater" (116 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (58)
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Translations
73 translations across 40 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- breekwater noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πρόχωσις noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Armenian
1 entries- ծովապատնեշ noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Bulgarian
1 entries- вълноло́м noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Catalan
1 entries- escullera noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 防波堤 noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- 防波堤 noun (beach barrier)
Czech
1 entries- vlnolam noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Danish
2 entries- bølgebryder noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- mole noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Dutch
4 entries- golfbreker noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- golfbreker noun (beach barrier)
- havendam noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- havenhoofd noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Estonian
1 entries- muul noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Finnish
1 entries- aallonmurtaja noun (construction in or around a harbour)
French
4 entries- brise-lames noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- brise-lames noun (beach barrier)
- digue noun (beach barrier)
- jetée noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Galician
2 entries- crebaondas noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- quebraondas noun (construction in or around a harbour)
German
4 entries- Buhne noun (beach barrier)
- Mole noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- Wellenbrecher noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- Wellenbrecher noun (beach barrier)
Greek
2 entries- κυματοθραύστης noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- κυματοθραύστης noun (beach barrier)
Hebrew
1 entries- שׁוֹבֵר גַּלִּים noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Hungarian
1 entries- hullámtörő noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Ido
1 entries- ondegoruptilo noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Irish
2 entries- bábhún noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- tonnchosc noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Italian
4 entries- bulbo noun (low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship)
- diga foranea noun (beach barrier)
- frangiflutti noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- frangimare noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Japanese
1 entries- 防波堤 noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Khmer
1 entries- ជញ្ជាំងការពារឆ្នេរសមុទ្រ noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Korean
1 entries- 방파제 noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Macedonian
2 entries- бранобран noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- бранобран noun (beach barrier)
Māori
1 entries- rongoteka noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Norman
1 entries- caûchie noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bølgebryter noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bølgebrytar noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Polish
2 entries- falochron noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- ostroga brzegowa noun (beach barrier)
Portuguese
2 entries- esporão noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- quebra-mar noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Russian
4 entries- волноло́м noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- волноло́м noun (beach barrier)
- волноре́з noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- волноре́з noun (beach barrier)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- doirlinn-fasgaidh noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- lukobran noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Slovak
1 entries- vlnolam noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Spanish
4 entries- escollera noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- escollera noun (beach barrier)
- espigón noun (construction in or around a harbour)
- reventazón noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Swedish
1 entries- vågbrytare noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Tagalog
1 entries- pamasag-alon noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Turkish
1 entries- mendirek noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Ukrainian
1 entries- хвилері́з noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Welsh
1 entries- morglawdd noun (construction in or around a harbour)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
A young couple were watching the sunset from the breakwater.
Source: tatoeba (9149583)
A long breakwater was built, along with piers and docking terminals.
Source: tatoeba (11112181)
[…]there is a channel, some three miles wide between the city and the mainland, and some mile and a half wide between it and the sandy breakwater called the Lido, which divides the lagoon from the Adriatic,
Source: wiktionary
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