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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  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 WordNet1.3 / 4 votes

  1. moat, fossenoun

    ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water

    Synonyms:
    fosse

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. moatnoun

    Synonyms:
    ditch, fosse, graff

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. moatnoun

    Synonyms:
    fosse, graffe

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "moat":

    fluke, trench, ditch

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How to use moat in a sentence?

  1. Lamar Villere:

    The companies that are going to be able to withstand this are the ones that have a sort of moat around their businesses.

  2. Tobias Jones:

    For centuries, the worry was about the river flooding, but climate change has meant that Po River is now at risk of drying up, po River is not just Po River, Po River is part of the national psyche. The towns along Po River draw tourism and industry. It was almost a moat for central Italy that kept it safe from invaders. Now it is under threat and no one knows what to do to save it.

  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. 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.

  5. 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.


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