casemate
Meaning of casemate
- a small room in the wall of a fortress, with openings from which guns or missiles could be fired.
- an armoured enclosure for guns on a warship.
mid 16th century: from French, from Italian casamatta, perhaps from Greek khasma, khasmat- (see chasm).
Information about casemate
- It is a name.
- The plural form of casemate is: casemates.
- Languages in which casemate is used:
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Hyphenation of casemate
case-mate
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- casemate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with casemate
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