Moat

Noun

 * 1) A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
 * 2) 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

Thesaurus
abri, abysm, abyss, approach trench, aqueduct, arch dam, arroyo, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, box canyon, breach, break, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bunker, canal, canalization, canyon, cavity, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, cofferdam, col, communication trench, coulee, couloir, countermine, coupure, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cut, cwm, dam, defense, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, double sap, draw, dugout, earthwork, embankment, entrenchment, excavation, fault, fence, fire trench, fissure, flaw, flume, flying sap, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, fracture, furrow, gallery, gap, gape, gash, gate, goffer, gorge, gravity dam, groin, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, ha-ha, hole, hydraulic-fill dam, incision, iron curtain, jam, jetty, joint, kennel, kloof, leak, leaping weir, levee, logjam, milldam, mine, mole, mound, notch, nullah, opening, parallel, parapet, pass, passage, pleat, portcullis, rampart, ravine, rent, rift, rime, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rupture, sap, scissure, seam, seawall, shutter dam, slit, slit trench, slot, split, stone wall, sunk fence, trench, trough, tunnel, valley, void, wadi, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

Etymology
From mote:, from  mote: (compare also  motte:, from  mota:, of  origin, perhaps via  *undefined:, from, from . Cognate with  Mott:, Mutte:,  Mott:,  dialectal mot:,  mut:,  muta:,  mot:. More at , ,.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: fossat
 * Chinese: 護城河, 护城河;
 * Chinese Characters: 堑, 塹, 壕, 池, 洫, 濠
 * Czech:
 * Danish: voldgrav
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vallikraav
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Burggraben
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kastalasíki, síki, virkisgröf, kastaladíki,
 * Ido: fosato
 * Icelandic: kastalasíki, síki, virkisgröf, kastaladíki,
 * Ido: fosato


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ស្នាមភ្លោះ
 * Korean: 해자 (垓字, haeja)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: aizsarggrāvis
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: šanac, шанац
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: பாதுகாப்பு பள்ளம்
 * Thai: คูปราสาท, คูเมือง
 * Turkish:
 * Thai: คูปราสาท, คูเมือง
 * Turkish:

Anagrams

 * Amto
 * atom
 * Mato
 * mota
 * toma

Noun
moat



Anagrams

 * mato, omat