turret
/ˈtʌɹɪt/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
noun
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.
noun
A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
noun
An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
noun
The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
noun
A turret head.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: touret, torete, turris
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtʌɹɪt/
- British English: /ˈtʌɹɪt/