We found 43 dictionaries that define the word
buttress:
General (26 matching dictionaries)
- buttress: Merriam-Webster
- buttress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- buttress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- buttress: Collins English Dictionary
- buttress: Vocabulary.com
- Buttress, buttress: Wordnik
- buttress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- buttress: Wiktionary
- buttress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
- buttress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- buttress: Infoplease Dictionary
- Buttress, buttress: Dictionary.com
- buttress: Online Etymology Dictionary
- buttress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
- Buttress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- Buttress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
- buttress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
- buttress: Rhymezone
- Buttress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
- buttress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- buttress: FreeDictionary.org
- buttress: Mnemonic Dictionary
- buttress: TheFreeDictionary.com
- buttress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Art (2 matching dictionaries)
- buttress: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
- BUTTRESS: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
Business (2 matching dictionaries)
- Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
- buttress: Legal dictionary
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- buttress: Encyclopedia
Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
- online medical dictionary (No longer online)
- DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
- buttress: Medical dictionary
Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
- Buttress: Castle Terms
- buttress: A Word A Day
- buttress: Idioms
Religion (1 matching dictionary)
- Buttress: Catholic Encyclopedia
Science (2 matching dictionaries)
- Botanical Terms (No longer online)
- Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- The Buttress, buttress: Urban Dictionary
Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
- AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
- Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
(Note: See
buttressed as well.)
▸ noun: (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
▸ noun: (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
▸ noun: (botany) A buttress-root.
▸ noun: (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
▸ noun: (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
▸ verb: To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
▸ verb: (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
counterfort,
abutment,
flying buttress,
bastion,
bearing,
butment,
underpinning,
backstop,
brattice,
bracket,
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great,
zygomatic,
large,
zygomaticomaxillary,
main,
central,
massive,
strongest,
huge,
small,
south
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