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nouna deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle. any similar trench, as one used for confining animals in a zoo. Origin of moat1325–75; Middle English mote<Old French: clod, mound, of obscure origin WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH moatmoat , moteWords nearby moatMoabite, Moabite Stone, moa hunter, moai, moan, moat, mob, MOBA, mobcap, mobcast, mobe Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for moatWith the rollout of the new campaign format, Snapchat is widening its moat against TikTok and other challengers for short-form video budgets. Snapchat is pitching high-frequency, high-reach ‘Platform Burst’ ad campaigns|Seb Joseph|September 28, 2020|Digiday Broadcast and cable are highly geographic but the franchise value becomes higher because of the regulatory moat. With Goat Capital, Justin Kan and Robin Chan want to keep founding alongside the right teams|Eric Eldon|September 17, 2020|TechCrunch But over the years, cloistered in their mountain keep, complete with moat, Bender and Patton became ever more reclusive. Gems, Guns and Death in a Jungle Mansion|Zach Dyer|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST The brain is a castle and this is its moat, as experts have described it. Scientists Find Bacteria Where It Isn’t Supposed to Be: The Brain|Amanda Schaffer|March 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The moat outside the walls was bridged over and filled in—a green ravine of grasses and wild-flowers. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest|Amelia B. Edwards It was surrounded by a moat filled with water, and passed by a wooden bridge. The History of Signboards|Jacob Larwood Orthon took the road along the moat which led to the banks of the river. Marguerite de Valois|Alexandre Dumas Some jumped into the moat and began climbing up upon the shoulders of their companions. History of Kershaw's Brigade|D. Augustus Dickert He made battlements on the walls, and surrounded the whole with a moat.
British Dictionary definitions for moat
nouna wide water-filled ditch surrounding a fortified place, such as a castle verb(tr) to surround with or as if with a moata moated grange Word Origin for moatC14: from Old French motte mound Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to moattrench, gully, canal, channel, fosse |