Synonyms for moat
moʊtmoat

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1. moatnoun

   Synonyms:
   fosse

2. moatnoun

   A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

   Synonyms:
   fosse

3. moatnoun

   An aspect of a business which makes it more defensible from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.

   Synonyms:
   fosse

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:1.3 / 4 votes

1. moat, fossenoun

   ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water

   Synonyms:
   fosse

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1. • Trench

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1. moatnoun

   Synonyms:
   ditch, fosse, graff

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1. moatnoun

   Synonyms:
   fosse, graffe

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "moat":

   fluke, trench, ditch

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How to use moat in a sentence?

1. Dennis Koenig:

   Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread return to sender, addressee unknown. That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.

2. William Shakespeare:

   This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

3. Alexa Brauner:

   The first sections of the Ringstrasse to be completed were here: the Kaerntner Ring, and the Opernring, the boulevard itself is mostly built on the moat.

4. The President:

   We've got to learn the right lessons from that. The lesson is not that we pull up the drawbridge and build a moat around ourselves, the lesson is that we've got to make sure that the trade deals that we do shape our ones that allow us to compete fairly.

5. Paul Offit:

   My gut says we're going to be able to contain this real quick -- we're going to be able to put a moat around this fire, i think this is going to be much more like SARS or MERS than the movie' Contagion.'.