turret en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈtʌɹɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation, US) without the hurry–furry merger
- audio non native living in the US
- /ˈtʌɾɪt/ (Scotland, Wales)
- /ˈtɝ.ɪt/ US, hurry–furry merger
- /ˈtʊɹɪt/ (Northern-England)
- tŭr'ĭt (Received-Pronunciation, US) without the hurry–furry merger
Etymology
From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.
Meanings
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A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:
- (historical) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- A turret head.
- The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| turrets | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
turret farm · turret spider · turretlike · ball turret · turreted · trading turret · turret ship · bell turret · turret lathe · turret board · turretless · gun turret · turret deck · blister turret · turret head · turret clock · turret revolver · multiturret · turret steamer
Synonyms
Translations (53)
fi tykkitorni (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · bg оръдейна кула (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · sv belägringstorn (a movable building) · de Türmlein (a little tower) · mk торета (a little tower) · cy tyred (a little tower) · fi torni (a little tower) · pt torreta (a little tower) · hu torony (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · sv turell (a little tower) · ru тура (a movable building) · mi maihi (a little tower) · et piiramistorn (a movable building) · nl belegeringstoren (a movable building) · de Tourelle (a little tower) · el πυργίσκος (a little tower) · sv vakttorn (a little tower) · es torreta (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · ru осадная башня (a movable building) · nl geschuttorentje (a little tower) · nl hoektoren (a little tower) · fa برجک (a little tower) · bg обсадна кула (a movable building) · eo tureto (a little tower) · it torretta (a little tower) · mk ку́личка (a little tower) · ru ба́шенка (a little tower) · nl pantserkoepel (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · de Türmchen (a little tower) · nl geschutskoepel (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · ca torrelló (a little tower) · nl geschuttoren (a little tower) · pl wieżyczka (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · ru туре́ль (a little tower) · cmn 炮塔 (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · sv utkikstorn (a little tower) · sv kanontorn (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · hu lövegtorony (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · nl hoektorentje (a little tower) · hu tornyocska (a little tower) · nrf touothelle (a little tower) · bg куличка (a little tower) · ga túirín (a little tower) · ru ба́шенка (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · ca torreta (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · sh kupola (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation) · uz bashnya (a little tower) · cy tŵr bach (a little tower) · sv torn (a little tower) · es torrecilla (a little tower) · fr tourelle (a little tower) · pl wieżyczka (a little tower) · de Turm (a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates with a gun installation)