Definitions for embarcadero

embarcadero em·bar·ca·de·ro

Spelling: [em-bahr-kuh-dair-oh]
IPA: /ɛmˌbɑr kəˈdɛər oʊ/

Embarcadero is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 612 anagrams from letters in embarcadero (aabcdeemorr).

Definitions for embarcadero

noun

  1. a pier, wharf, or landing place.
  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a waterfront section in San Francisco: piers and seafood restaurants.

Origin of embarcadero

1840-50, Americanism; American Spanish, Spanish: pier, docking place, equivalent to embarcad(o) past participle of embarcar to embark, launch + -ero Latin -ārium

Examples for embarcadero

It was the raft which the surveyors from the embarcadero had just abandoned.

We crossed the Sacramento at the embarcadero, swimming our horses, and passing ourselves over in a small canoe.

He nodded half impatiently and made his way along the embarcadero.

I'm goin' to have a town along the embarcadero that'll lay over any town in Contra Costa.

It had broken down just before he reached the embarcadero, and he had been obliged to row ashore.

From the embarcadero we walked, under the influence of the rays of an almost broiling sun, four miles to the town of Sonoma.

As I was saying (when that minister switched me off), I was strolling along the embarcadero.

As he came up the slant of the embarcadero, Chesney had actual difficulty in walking.

He glanced backwards almost tenderly in the direction of Los Cuervos, and then turned his head towards the embarcadero.

The embarcadero, or landing, I think, is six miles from the Pueblo.

Word Value for embarcadero
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Words with friends

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