Noun: turret
| Singular | turret |
| Plural | turrets |
Sample Sentences
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Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
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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 7–8]
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Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
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Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
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And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
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The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light. [1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:]
Nouns inflected like turret
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
touret', Latin Nouns '
turris'.
Verbs referencing "turret"
Russian Nouns
тура.