English-Spanish translations for moat

• fosa
  Ninguna de las partes desea erigir nuevas «fosas» ni «telones» en Europa. Neither side wants to see new 'moats' or 'curtains' in Europe.
• foso
  Pero nosotros, los europeos, lo hemos convertido en un foso moderno, en el que, en los últimos diez años, 4 000 hombres y mujeres han ahogado sus esperanzas. We Europeans, however, have turned it into a modern-day moat, in which, over the past ten years, 4 000 men and women have drowned their hopes.

Definition of moat

• A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation
• A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it
• To surround with a moat

Related words

• homoatomic
• moated castle
• economic moat
• castle moat
• New Moat