Breakwater

Breakwater may refer to:

• Breakwater (structure), a structure for protecting a beach or harbour

Places

• Breakwater, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• Breakwater Island, Antarctica
• Breakwater Islands, Nunavut, Canada
• Breakwater School, a Portland, Maine, pre-school and elementary school founded in 1956

Arts and entertainment

• Breakwater (band), a funk and soul band from the 1970s
• Breakwater (album), a 1988 album by Lennie Gallant
• Breakwater (film), a 2023 starring Dermot Mulroney
• The Breakwater, an alternative name for the 1670 painting Storm Off a Sea Coast by Jacob van Ruisdael

Other

• USS Breakwater (SP-681), a United States Navy patrol vessel, minesweeper, and tug in commission from 1917 to 1920
• Breaking the water or water breaking, a term for the rupture of membranes during pregnancy