Usually means: Structure protecting shore from waves.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. breakwater: Merriam-Webster
  2. breakwater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breakwater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breakwater: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breakwater: Vocabulary.com
  6. Breakwater, breakwater: Wordnik
  7. breakwater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Breakwater, Breakwater: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. breakwater: Wiktionary
  10. breakwater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. breakwater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. breakwater: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. breakwater: Dictionary.com
  14. Breakwater (album), Breakwater (band), Breakwater (structure), Breakwater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Breakwater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. breakwater: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. breakwater: Rhymezone
  18. Breakwater: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. breakwater: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. breakwater: FreeDictionary.org
  21. breakwater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. breakwater: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. breakwater: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breakwater: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breakwater: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Breakwater: BEACH-NET! (fishing)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Breakwater: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
noun:  (nautical) A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
noun:  (on beaches) A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.

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