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[ ram -pahrt, -pert ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈræm pɑrt, -pərt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun Fortification . a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet. anything serving as a bulwark or defense.
verb (used with object) to furnish with or as if with a rampart.
Origin of rampart 1575–85; <Middle French, derivative of
remparer, equivalent to
re- re- +
emparer to take possession of <Provençal
amparar ≪ Latin
ante- ante- +
parāre to prepare
SYNONYMS FOR rampart 2 fortification, breastwork, barricade, guard.
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Example sentences from the Web for rampart The 18th Street Gang was named after the locus of its birth in the Rampart s section.
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Against this sulfurous backdrop, Democrats and Republicans alike feel compelled to man the rampart s for their core constituencies.
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We would set aside all other agendas and disputes as secondary, and go to the rampart s until the threat was repelled.
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Voters grabbed their pitchforks Tuesday night and came over the rampart s.
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The Rev. Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh rushed to the rampart s immediately.
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The rampart s of insecticide with which he surrounded himself availed nought.
As to the warriors, they silently kept watch on the rampart s and the towers.
Annals of a Fortress | E. Viollet-le-Duc
The episcopals might try to attack the rampart s from behind.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne Sue
Three of the towers took fire, as well as the wattling of the rampart s.
Annals of a Fortress | E. Viollet-le-Duc
In that event, their bodies would be the bucklers and rampart s of our common country; they would live, or they would die with us.
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British Dictionary definitions for rampart noun the surrounding embankment of a fort, often including any walls, parapets, walks, etc, that are built on the bank
anything resembling a rampart in form or function, esp in being a defence or bulwark
Canadian a steep rock wall in a river gorge
verb (tr) to provide with a rampart; fortify
Word Origin for rampart C16: from Old French, from remparer , from re- + emparer to take possession of, from Old Provençal antparar , from Latin ante before + parāre to prepare
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Words related to rampart barricade, bastion, ridge, fence, barrier, bulwark, wall, parapet, support, guard, defense, hill, embankment, protection, elevation, mound, security, fort, breastwork, earthwork