RETAINING WALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retaining wall mean? 

• RETAINING WALL (noun)
  The noun RETAINING WALL has 1 sense:

1. a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)

  Familiarity information: RETAINING WALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETAINING WALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("retaining wall" is a kind of...):

wall (a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden))