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Fosse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A ditch or moat.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A ditch or moat

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A ditch or moat.

n. See Fossa.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. see foss.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water

Word Usage

"Avebury had at one time within a great rampart and a fosse, which is still forty feet deep, a large circle of rough unhewn stones, and within this two circles each containing a smaller concentric circle."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

trench

Variant

fossa

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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