embayment
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embayment
- /ɪmˈbeɪmənt/
Where it comes from
From em- + bay + -ment.
noun embayments
- A bay. (the water) The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.
- The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
- A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
- The process by which a bay is formed.
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Talk about this word "embayment." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/embayment. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. embayment. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/embayment "embayment." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/embayment.
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@misc{embayment_2026,
title = {embayment},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/embayment},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
