A seawall on the Isle of Wight.
From Middle English se-walle, from Old English sǣweall (“seawall”), equivalent to sea + wall.
seawall (plural seawalls)
- A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment.
coastal defence
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 海堤 (zh) (hǎidī)
- Dutch: zeedijk (nl)
- Dzongkha: མཚོ་རྩིག (mtsho rtsig)
- Finnish: rantamuuri, rantavalli
- French: digue (fr)
- German: Damm (de) m, Deich (de) m
- Hindi: समुद्री दीवार (samudrī dīvār), समुद्रभित्ति (samudrabhitti)
- Italian: frangiflutti (it) m
- Korean: 해벽 (haebyeok), 방파제 (ko) (bangpaje)
- Norman: talustre m
- Russian: волноло́м (ru) m (volnolóm), волноре́з (ru) m (volnoréz), да́мба (ru) f (dámba)
- Spanish: dique (es) m, espaldón m, rompeolas m, espigón (es) m, tajamar (es) m, molo (es) m
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