Embayment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪmˈbeɪmənt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Embayment is a noun meaning A bay. (the water).
Meaning
A bay. (the water).
More Meanings
- The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
- A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
- The process by which a bay is formed.
Example Sentences
The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.
Word Forms
- embayments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bay, bight, bayhead, inlet, benthon, bottom.
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