turret

Meaning of turret

noun
  1. A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
  2. A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
  3. A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
  4. An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
  5. The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.

Information about turret

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of turret is: turrets.
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Hyphenation of turret

tur-ret

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • turret is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

turret synonyms

Meaning :

cupola

Anagrams of turret

Rutter, rutter

Words that rhyme with turret

Barret, Garret, Jarret, barret, garret, jarret, Perret, berret, ferret, lerret, outferret, skerret, terret, wherret, skirret, tirret, whirret, porret, torret, enturret

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