TubeTalkTubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “breakwater”
Hear “breakwater” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for breakwater
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of breakwater with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 1 YouTube example
- Real speech example
- Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that 7 minutes, 55 seconds
as a breakwater.
- Definition summary
- A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
Example 1 of 1
How to pronounce breakwater
Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that 7 minutes, 55 seconds
as a breakwater.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “breakwater”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
- (nautical) A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
- (on beaches) A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
Practice Nearby Words
groyne, jetty, seawall, bulwark, mole, groin, pier, causeway, dam, embankment, levee, dyke, dike, breakwall, waterbreak, bulkhead, harbor of refuge, weather shore, harbour of refuge, harbor, haven, harbourage, wharf, harborage, harbourside, harbourfront, collision bulkhead, harborfront, roundhead, safe harbour, roader, roadstead, cofferdam, backwater, barricade, embarcadère, wharfage, waterwall, wharfing, boom, bridgehead, drawbridge, training wall, revetment, bulkhead line, typhoon shelter, dock, breastwork, quay, dropwall, government wharf, blockhouse, tribar, floodwall, wall, wharfland, harborside, sound wall, bunker, breaker's yard, containment boom, bridge, forewall, embarcadere, shelter, counterfort, wing wall, countermure, starling, barricading, bunker barge, bund, blockade, bawn, deadlight, road, waterstop, boathouse, beartrap, water bridge, buttress, walled garden, bulkheading, boatyard, shelter deck, wide berth, bressummer, battleworks, covered bridge, pouch, embarcadero, barrier, weatherproofing, safe harbor, embayment, rampart, port, wharfside, waterchamber, warm-water port
Similar Sounds
breakwater, break water, breakwaters, backwater, back water, bridgewater, blackwater, black water, bridgwater, breakout, break out, breaks out, break-out, brachiate, brake light, bowater, bathwater, braithwaite, bakeware, bath water, bywater, broadwater, backwaters, branch water, break with, break for, breakmate, breakwall, greywater, grey water, jerkwater, broke out, breakouts, boycotter, breaker, bracket, barometer, braker, brick wall, buckwheat, brackett, break you, braked, bricklayer, briquette, brocket, breakbeat, blue water, break wind, brockett, brockway, boquete, bluewater, brick walls, brake lights, brake pads, brookshire, brake pad, break heart, brooklet, break short, brathwaite, buck wheat, bilgewater, broket, buckwalter, back matter, make water, take water