embankment.

A raised bank of earth or stone built to hold back water or support a road or railway.

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Words that belong together

• railway embankment
• flood embankment

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The railway embankment divided the fields from the marsh.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Singular embankment; plural embankments. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.