How to pronounce gabion
American English pronunciation
GAY-bee-un
- IPA
- /ˈɡeɪbi.ən/
- Syllables
- GAY · bee · un (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What gabion means
A wire cage packed with rocks, used to build walls
In a sentence: Workers set each gabion along the riverbank to keep the soil from washing away.
Where it comes from: It came from an Italian word meaning a big cage, from the Latin word for a cage or hollow.
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