TURRET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turret mean? 

• TURRET (noun)
  The noun TURRET has 2 senses:

1. a small tower extending above a building

2. a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation

  Familiarity information: TURRET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURRET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small tower extending above a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("turret" is a kind of...):

tower (a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building)

Holonyms ("turret" is a part of...):

castle (a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gun enclosure; gun turret; turret

Hypernyms ("turret" is a kind of...):

platform; weapons platform (any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons)

Holonyms ("turret" is a part of...):

armored combat vehicle; armoured combat vehicle; army tank; tank (an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads)

 Context examples 

And how of yon gray turret on the left?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a turret at least five feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We found Mr. Micawber at his desk, in the turret office on the ground floor, either writing, or pretending to write, hard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She made such a report of me to her father, that Mr. Oliver himself accompanied her next evening—a tall, massive-featured, middle-aged, and grey-headed man, at whose side his lovely daughter looked like a bright flower near a hoary turret.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But mark you now yonder lofty turret in the centre, which stands back from the river and hath a broad banner upon the summit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The castle was theirs, and the roaring flames were spurting through the windows and flickering high above the turrets on two sides of the quadrangle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beneath and around them blazed the huge fire, roaring and crackling on every side of the bailey, and even as they looked the two corner turrets fell in with a deafening crash, and the whole castle was but a shapeless mass, spouting flames and smoke from every window and embrasure.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there only, on the farthest sky-line, the gnarled turrets of a castle, or the graceful pinnacles of church or of monastery showed where the forces of the sword or of the spirit had preserved some small islet of security in this universal flood of misery.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)