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/ˈtʌɹɪt/ · noun
(architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle..
Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
Use turret when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Turret means (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle..
Common synonyms include cupola, gun turret, gun enclosure.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
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