All levee synonyms

noun levee

• dam — A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
• bank — A bank is a building where a bank offers its services.
• earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
• breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
• mound — a globe topped with a cross that symbolizes power and constitutes part of the regalia of an English sovereign.
• embankment — A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• rampart — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
• protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
• reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.