escarpments
Meaning of escarpments
plural noun
a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
early 19th century: from French escarpement, escarpe ‘scarp’, from Italian scarpa ‘slope’. Compare with scarp.
Information about escarpments
- It is a name.
- The singular form of escarpments is: escarpment.
- Languages in which escarpments is used:
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Hyphenation of escarpments
es-carp-ments
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- escarpments is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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