Meanings
plural crenels · plural creneaux
- The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
Near-synonym: embrasure (sometimes hypernymous technically)
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They would wake Lord Bolton and search Harrenhal from crenel to cellar, and when they did they would find the map and the dagger missing, […]
2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 35Synonyms: embrasure[Appendix:Glossary
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
More synonyms by meaning
nounone of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchcrenel
- Englishcrenel
From Old French crenel ( > modern French créneau), diminutive of cren (“notch”).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian амбразура
- амбразура (ambrazura)space between merlons
Catalan merlet
- merletspace between merlons
Czech cimbuří, mezera
- cimbuříspace between merlons
- mezeraspace between merlons
- mezizubíspace between merlons
Esperanto krenelo, murdento
- krenelospace between merlons
- murdentospace between merlons
Finnish ampuma-aukko
- ampuma-aukkospace between merlons
French créneau
- créneauspace between merlons
German Zinnenfenster, Zinnenscharte
- Zinnenfensterspace between merlons
- Zinnenschartespace between merlons
Norwegian Bokmål krenelering
- kreneleringspace between merlons
Polish miedza
- miedzaspace between merlons
Portuguese ameia
- ameiaspace between merlons
Romanian crenel
- crenelspace between merlons
Swedish skottglugg
- skottgluggspace between merlons
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with crenel
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crenel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crenel
“crenel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crenel. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crenel,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crenel.
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