Synonyms for dyke
- noun
- British English
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Any embankment — any impediment, barrier, or difficulty
dam, levee, sea wall, embankment, breakwater, earthwork, bank, floodwall
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Any small body of water.
- n. 2
Any hollow dug into the ground.
- n. 3
Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- n. 4
An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
Related words
- Word family
- dykedar dykey
- Phrases
- designer dyke bull dyke
Forms
- Plural
- dykes → dams, levees, embankments, breakwaters…
Example sentences
- dam This is the first time I've ever fished at the dam.
- embankment Blossoms have come out on the embankment.
- levee The levee kept the floodwater back.
- pond Ken'nichi made a pond in the shape of Lake Geneva.
- puddle Ziri splashed Rima with dirty water from a puddle.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| dyke | falling | |
| dam | falling | |
| embankment | falling | |
| levee | falling | |
| pond | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- pit1, dam1, den1
- 4 letters
- bank1, pool1, hole1, cave1, mere1, pond1, foss1
- 5 letters
- ditch1, butch1, levee2, fosse1
- 6 letters
- trench1, puddle2
- 7 letters
- lesbian3, lakelet
- 8 letters
- sapphist
- 9 letters
- earthwork2, floodwall
- 10 letters
- homosexual5, embankment3, breakwater3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (levee2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- gouine
- Español
- tortillera