Word Meanings - PARAPET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. (more info) guard + petto the breast, L. pectus.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PARAPET)

• Bulwark
• Rampart
• fortress
• fortification
• palladium
• citadel
• intrenchment
• stronghold
• parapet
• bastion

Related words: (words related to PARAPET)

• RAMPART
  A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
• BASTIONED
  Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
• BULWARK
  A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork. 2. That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection. The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense, . . . the floating bulwark of our
• PARAPETALOUS
  Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.
• STRONGHOLD
  A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
• FORTRESS
  A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. Syn. -- Fortress, Fortification, Castle, Citadel. A fortress is constructed for military purposes
• CITADEL
  A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.
• PALLADIUM
  Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy. 2. Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our
• FORTIFICATION
  1. The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy. 2. That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a
• PARAPET
  A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. (more info) guard + petto the breast, L. pectus.
• PALLADIUMIZE
  To cover or coat with palladium.
• PARAPETED
  Having a parapet.
• INTRENCHMENT
  Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch. On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills. Washington. 3. Any defense or protection.
• BASTION
  A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another.
• REFORTIFICATION
  A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.
• DEMIBASTION
  A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
• COMFORTRESS
  A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.