Most castles have a moat surrounding them.
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Moat
//məʊt//
Synonyms for "moat" (151 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (45)
Related words (75)
fortified tunnelfoxholefracturefurrowgallerygapgapegashgategoffergorgegravity damgroingroovegulchgulfgullygutterha haha-ha
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holehydraulic-fill damincisioniron curtainjamjettyjointkennelkloofleakleaping weirleveelogjammilldamminemolemoundnotchnullahopeningparallelparapetpasspassagepleatportcullisrampartravinerentriftrimeroadblockrock-fill damrupturesapscissureseamseawallshutter damslitslit trenchslotsplitstone wallsunk fencetrenchtroughtunnelvalleyvoidwadiwallweirwicket damwork
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1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
4 entriesetymologically related_to
3 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
36 entriesShowing 16 of 36 words.
Translations
93 translations across 59 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- خَنْدَق noun (defensive ditch)
Armenian
1 entries- խրամ noun (defensive ditch)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- xəndək noun (defensive ditch)
Belarusian
1 entries- роў noun (defensive ditch)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ров noun (defensive ditch)
Burmese
1 entries- ကျုံး noun (defensive ditch)
Catalan
1 entries- fossat noun (defensive ditch)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 城壕 noun (defensive ditch)
- 城河 noun (defensive ditch)
- 護城壕 /护城壕 noun (defensive ditch)
- 護城河 /护城河 noun (defensive ditch)
Czech
2 entries- příkop noun (defensive ditch)
- vodní příkop noun (defensive ditch)
Danish
1 entries- voldgrav noun (defensive ditch)
Dutch
2 entries- gracht noun (defensive ditch)
- slotgracht noun (defensive ditch)
Esperanto
1 entries- fosaĵo noun (defensive ditch)
Estonian
1 entries- vallikraav noun (defensive ditch)
Finnish
1 entries- vallihauta noun (defensive ditch)
French
1 entries- douve noun (defensive ditch)
Galician
2 entries- cárcava noun (defensive ditch)
- foso noun (defensive ditch)
Georgian
2 entries- გუბი noun (defensive ditch)
- თხრილი noun (defensive ditch)
German
2 entries- Burggraben noun (defensive ditch)
- Wassergraben noun (defensive ditch)
Greek
1 entries- τάφρος noun (defensive ditch)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֲפִיר noun (defensive ditch)
Hindi
4 entries- ख़ंदक़ noun (defensive ditch)
- खाई noun (defensive ditch)
- खाल noun (defensive ditch)
- परिखा noun (defensive ditch)
Hungarian
2 entries- sáncárok noun (defensive ditch)
- vizesárok noun (defensive ditch)
Icelandic
4 entries- díki noun (defensive ditch)
- kastaladíki noun (defensive ditch)
- kastalasíki noun (defensive ditch)
- síki noun (defensive ditch)
Ido
1 entries- fosato noun (defensive ditch)
Irish
2 entries- díog noun (defensive ditch)
- móta noun (defensive ditch)
Italian
4 entries- canale noun (defensive ditch)
- canalone noun (defensive ditch)
- fossato noun (defensive ditch)
- fosso noun (defensive ditch)
Japanese
1 entries- 堀 noun (defensive ditch)
Kazakh
1 entries- ор noun (defensive ditch)
Khmer
1 entries- ស្នាមភ្លោះ noun (defensive ditch)
Korean
3 entries- 성호 noun (defensive ditch)
- 해자 noun (defensive ditch)
- 호 noun (defensive ditch)
Latin
1 entries- fossa noun (defensive ditch)
Latvian
1 entries- aizsarggrāvis noun (defensive ditch)
Macedonian
2 entries- ров noun (defensive ditch)
- шанец noun (defensive ditch)
Māori
1 entries- awamate noun (defensive ditch)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- vollgrav noun (defensive ditch)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- vollgrav noun (defensive ditch)
Occitan
2 entries- doga noun (defensive ditch)
- valat noun (defensive ditch)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- خندق noun (defensive ditch)
Persian
2 entries- خندق noun (defensive ditch)
- پارگین noun (defensive ditch)
Polish
1 entries- fosa noun (defensive ditch)
Portuguese
1 entries- fosso noun (defensive ditch)
Romanian
1 entries- șanț noun (defensive ditch)
Russian
1 entries- ров noun (defensive ditch)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- šanac noun (defensive ditch)
- шанац noun (defensive ditch)
Sicilian
2 entries- fossa noun (defensive ditch)
- fussatu noun (defensive ditch)
Slovak
1 entries- priekopa noun (defensive ditch)
Slovene
1 entries- jarek noun (defensive ditch)
Spanish
3 entries- cava noun (defensive ditch)
- fosa noun (defensive ditch)
- foso noun (defensive ditch)
Swedish
2 entries- stormgrav noun (defensive ditch)
- vallgrav noun (defensive ditch)
Tajik
1 entries- хандақ noun (defensive ditch)
Tamil
2 entries- அகழி noun (defensive ditch)
- பாதுகாப்பு பள்ளம் noun (defensive ditch)
Thai
2 entries- คูปราสาท noun (defensive ditch)
- คูเมือง noun (defensive ditch)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཆུ་དོང་ལྕགས་རི noun (defensive ditch)
Turkish
1 entries- hendek noun (defensive ditch)
Ukrainian
1 entries- рів noun (defensive ditch)
Urdu
2 entries- خندق noun (defensive ditch)
- کھائی noun (defensive ditch)
Uzbek
1 entries- xandaq noun (defensive ditch)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hào noun (defensive ditch)
- hố noun (defensive ditch)
Welsh
1 entries- ffos noun (defensive ditch)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Many castles are encircled by a moat.
Source: tatoeba (2485260)
A woman crossed a castle moat to rescue a stranded old dog.
Source: tatoeba (3483314)
There's a moat around the castle.
Source: tatoeba (3884575)
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