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bastion
bas·tion B0108600 (băs′chən, -tē-ən)n.1. A projecting part of a fortification.2. A well-fortified position.3. One that upholds or defends something, as against neglect or unpopularity: a college that is a bastion of traditionalism. See Synonyms at bulwark.
[French, from Old French bastillon, from bastille, fortress; see bastille.]
bas′tioned adj.bastion (ˈbæstɪən) n1. (Fortifications) a projecting work in a fortification designed to permit fire to the flanks along the face of the wall2. any fortified place3. a thing or person regarded as upholding or defending an attitude, principle, etc: the last bastion of opposition. [C16: from French, from earlier bastillon bastion, from bastille Bastille]bas•tion (ˈbæs tʃən)
n. 1. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work. 2. a fortified place. 3. anything seen as preserving some quality, condition, etc.: a bastion of democracy. [1590–1600; < Middle French < Italian bastione < Upper Italian bastí(a) bastion, orig., fortified, built < Germanic] bas′tioned, adj. bastionA pentagonal work projecting from the main rampart. Dominant feature of European military architecture from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  bastion - a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism"defence force, defense force, defence, defense - an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack; "he joined the defense against invasion" | | 2. |  bastion - a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battlecitadelacropolis - the citadel in ancient Greek townskremlin - citadel of a Russian townstronghold, fastness - a strongly fortified defensive structure | | 3. |  bastion - projecting part of a rampart or other fortificationfortification, munition - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it |
bastionnoun stronghold, support, defence, rock, prop, refuge, fortress, mainstay, citadel, bulwark, tower of strength, fastness The army is still one of the last male bastions.Translationsbastion (ˈbӕstjən) , ((American) ˈbastʃən) noun a person, place or thing which acts as a defence. He's one of the last bastions of the old leisurely way of life. 堡壘，防禦者(物) 堡垒Bastion
bastion[′bas·chən] (geology) A prominent aggregation of bedrock extending from the mouth of a hanging glacial trough and reaching well into the main glacial valley. BastionA projecting portion of a fortification designed to defend the adjacent curtain wall; it typically approximates a semi-hexagon, with the two outer faces meeting at an acute angle, and two flanks abutting a curtain wall on each side.Bastion a pentagonal fortification erected at the corners of the fortress wall to fire at the area in front of or along the fortress wall or the moats in front of them. Bastions appeared for the first time in Italy at the end of the 15th century and in Russia in the 16th century, where they were called raskats until the 18th century. A fortress bastion in Russia and in other countries consisted of one or two earth ramparts for the placement of weapons: the first, or the main rampart, and the second, or cavalier, which was higher than the first. The front sides of the bastion were called faces; the sides, flanks; and the inner rear side was called the gorge. The parts of two neighboring bastions facing each other and the section of the barrier connecting them, called the curtain, formed the bastion front. bastionA defense work, round, rectangular, or polygonal in plan, projecting from the outer wall of a fortification, principally to defend the adjacent perimeter.bastion
Synonyms for bastionnoun strongholdSynonyms- stronghold
- support
- defence
- rock
- prop
- refuge
- fortress
- mainstay
- citadel
- bulwark
- tower of strength
- fastness
Synonyms for bastionnoun a group that defends a principleRelated Words- defence force
- defense force
- defence
- defense
noun a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battleSynonymsRelated Words- acropolis
- kremlin
- stronghold
- fastness
noun projecting part of a rampart or other fortificationRelated Words |