Definition of stronghold in English:

stronghold

noun ˈstrɒŋhəʊldˈstrɔŋˌhoʊld

1A place that has been fortified so as to protect it against attack.
their mountain strongholds fell to enemy attack
Example sentencesExamples
- In this mode you make a custom fighter, then you go through a tactical game of taking enemy strongholds to fortify your battlefield position.
- Iraqi strongholds and fortified areas were sealed off with a part of coalition forces.
- They appeared to drive the enemy from the capital within days and then mounted attacks on rebel strongholds elsewhere.
- The charter references to ‘fortress-work’ imply fortified strongholds rather than dykes.
- They were able to build a fortified town and a stronghold they called a vault in case of an assault.
- The use of dummy strongholds and targets can minimize fire impact of an attacking enemy force 20 percent to 30 percent.
- It has been deployed to fill in for American combat troops required for the attack on the rebel stronghold.
- We are taking the fight into the strongholds of the enemy, and we are dealing the enemy blow after blow, damaging it daily.
- If Brocade is to protect its stronghold there, it too needs to offer an end-to-end solution.
- Successive English strongholds have fallen to outsiders.
- He tried without success to attack the Frankish strongholds while the Crusader army was pinned down in Egypt.
- He demonstrated the value of infantry strongholds, when they were properly supported, to inhibit enemy armoured thrusts.
- Government troops recently violated a ceasefire, attacking a rebel stronghold in the north.
- By this time, they had gained control over all the bastions, strongholds and fortifications surrounding the city.
- The face smiled wickedly, waved, and vanished in a swirl of proud bastions and fortified strongholds.
- At the same time opposition forces began building fortified strongholds in hard-to-access mountainous areas.
- The system of defense positions is built on a combination of strongholds, ambushes, fire pockets, and armor group positions.
- World War I saw the evolution of a new fortification setup combining field strongholds with fortresses.
- Cadeyrn was gone from the palace for days at a time, visiting forts along the coast and the strongholds of his warlords.
- The government deployed additional military forces to attack terrorist strongholds.
Synonyms
fortress, fort, castle, citadel, garrison, keep, tower, hold, donjon, bunker
fastness
2A place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended or upheld.
a Labour stronghold
Example sentencesExamples
- We will discover Nature's secret strongholds.
- But Republicans also lost ground in some traditional strongholds.
- They take in the Thornton & Allerton, and Clayton & Fairweather Green wards, both Tory strongholds in local elections.
- The middle and upper end of the market continues to be a stronghold of independent agencies such as Strutt & Parker and its peers.
- Both countries are Labour strongholds and the party would have expected to dominate under first-past-the-post electoral systems.
- Moreover, trade union strongholds in the public sector are further threatened by ongoing privatisation.
- The worst slums tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, and the fanciest suburbs tend to be Republican strongholds.
- By invoking prohibitions in this way the nation seeks to establish universally acknowledged strongholds.
- For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice.
- California has the undeserved reputation of being a liberal stronghold, a land of progressive new ideas.
- Ganesh and Rohit hope to capitalise on their stronghold of creativity and use of actual sounds.
- The contemporary music scene was the stronghold of disco and stadium rock, the two bland ends of a narrow spectrum.
- Their strongholds lie in the cities in which many students, academics, civil servants and public employees live.
- In fact, the Foreign Ministry has been a stronghold of fascist continuity.
- No, there'll be no libelling their stronghold as the ‘land of rain’, true as it may be.
- His right wing PAN party lost legislative seats and governorships in places long considered PAN strongholds.
- He has been to Democrat strongholds, Republican bastions and across the battleground states of the Midwest.
- Traditional strongholds in western regions have also experienced big rises.
- However, the party failed to progress beyond its regional strongholds even after it had reshaped itself into the Canadian Alliance.
- It is why the pro-choice side is losing ground now outside its strongholds on the coasts.
Synonyms
bastion, centre, refuge, hotbed

Definition of stronghold in US English:

stronghold

nounˈstrɔŋˌhoʊldˈstrôNGˌhōld

1A place that has been fortified so as to protect it against attack.
Example sentencesExamples
- We are taking the fight into the strongholds of the enemy, and we are dealing the enemy blow after blow, damaging it daily.
- If Brocade is to protect its stronghold there, it too needs to offer an end-to-end solution.
- Government troops recently violated a ceasefire, attacking a rebel stronghold in the north.
- They were able to build a fortified town and a stronghold they called a vault in case of an assault.
- He tried without success to attack the Frankish strongholds while the Crusader army was pinned down in Egypt.
- The charter references to ‘fortress-work’ imply fortified strongholds rather than dykes.
- In this mode you make a custom fighter, then you go through a tactical game of taking enemy strongholds to fortify your battlefield position.
- He demonstrated the value of infantry strongholds, when they were properly supported, to inhibit enemy armoured thrusts.
- The use of dummy strongholds and targets can minimize fire impact of an attacking enemy force 20 percent to 30 percent.
- Iraqi strongholds and fortified areas were sealed off with a part of coalition forces.
- World War I saw the evolution of a new fortification setup combining field strongholds with fortresses.
- By this time, they had gained control over all the bastions, strongholds and fortifications surrounding the city.
- The system of defense positions is built on a combination of strongholds, ambushes, fire pockets, and armor group positions.
- They appeared to drive the enemy from the capital within days and then mounted attacks on rebel strongholds elsewhere.
- Cadeyrn was gone from the palace for days at a time, visiting forts along the coast and the strongholds of his warlords.
- At the same time opposition forces began building fortified strongholds in hard-to-access mountainous areas.
- It has been deployed to fill in for American combat troops required for the attack on the rebel stronghold.
- Successive English strongholds have fallen to outsiders.
- The face smiled wickedly, waved, and vanished in a swirl of proud bastions and fortified strongholds.
- The government deployed additional military forces to attack terrorist strongholds.
Synonyms
fortress, fort, castle, citadel, garrison, keep, tower, hold, donjon, bunker
2A place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended or upheld.
a Republican stronghold
Example sentencesExamples
- Their strongholds lie in the cities in which many students, academics, civil servants and public employees live.
- By invoking prohibitions in this way the nation seeks to establish universally acknowledged strongholds.
- In fact, the Foreign Ministry has been a stronghold of fascist continuity.
- California has the undeserved reputation of being a liberal stronghold, a land of progressive new ideas.
- We will discover Nature's secret strongholds.
- No, there'll be no libelling their stronghold as the ‘land of rain’, true as it may be.
- Moreover, trade union strongholds in the public sector are further threatened by ongoing privatisation.
- Ganesh and Rohit hope to capitalise on their stronghold of creativity and use of actual sounds.
- For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice.
- His right wing PAN party lost legislative seats and governorships in places long considered PAN strongholds.
- Traditional strongholds in western regions have also experienced big rises.
- He has been to Democrat strongholds, Republican bastions and across the battleground states of the Midwest.
- The middle and upper end of the market continues to be a stronghold of independent agencies such as Strutt & Parker and its peers.
- They take in the Thornton & Allerton, and Clayton & Fairweather Green wards, both Tory strongholds in local elections.
- It is why the pro-choice side is losing ground now outside its strongholds on the coasts.
- Both countries are Labour strongholds and the party would have expected to dominate under first-past-the-post electoral systems.
- However, the party failed to progress beyond its regional strongholds even after it had reshaped itself into the Canadian Alliance.
- But Republicans also lost ground in some traditional strongholds.
- The worst slums tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, and the fanciest suburbs tend to be Republican strongholds.
- The contemporary music scene was the stronghold of disco and stadium rock, the two bland ends of a narrow spectrum.
Synonyms
bastion, centre, refuge, hotbed

单词	stronghold
释义	Definition of stronghold in English: stronghold noun ˈstrɒŋhəʊldˈstrɔŋˌhoʊld 1A place that has been fortified so as to protect it against attack. their mountain strongholds fell to enemy attack Example sentencesExamples In this mode you make a custom fighter, then you go through a tactical game of taking enemy strongholds to fortify your battlefield position. Iraqi strongholds and fortified areas were sealed off with a part of coalition forces. They appeared to drive the enemy from the capital within days and then mounted attacks on rebel strongholds elsewhere. The charter references to ‘fortress-work’ imply fortified strongholds rather than dykes. They were able to build a fortified town and a stronghold they called a vault in case of an assault. The use of dummy strongholds and targets can minimize fire impact of an attacking enemy force 20 percent to 30 percent. It has been deployed to fill in for American combat troops required for the attack on the rebel stronghold. We are taking the fight into the strongholds of the enemy, and we are dealing the enemy blow after blow, damaging it daily. If Brocade is to protect its stronghold there, it too needs to offer an end-to-end solution. Successive English strongholds have fallen to outsiders. He tried without success to attack the Frankish strongholds while the Crusader army was pinned down in Egypt. He demonstrated the value of infantry strongholds, when they were properly supported, to inhibit enemy armoured thrusts. Government troops recently violated a ceasefire, attacking a rebel stronghold in the north. By this time, they had gained control over all the bastions, strongholds and fortifications surrounding the city. The face smiled wickedly, waved, and vanished in a swirl of proud bastions and fortified strongholds. At the same time opposition forces began building fortified strongholds in hard-to-access mountainous areas. The system of defense positions is built on a combination of strongholds, ambushes, fire pockets, and armor group positions. World War I saw the evolution of a new fortification setup combining field strongholds with fortresses. Cadeyrn was gone from the palace for days at a time, visiting forts along the coast and the strongholds of his warlords. The government deployed additional military forces to attack terrorist strongholds. Synonyms fortress, fort, castle, citadel, garrison, keep, tower, hold, donjon, bunker fastness 2A place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended or upheld. a Labour stronghold Example sentencesExamples We will discover Nature's secret strongholds. But Republicans also lost ground in some traditional strongholds. They take in the Thornton & Allerton, and Clayton & Fairweather Green wards, both Tory strongholds in local elections. The middle and upper end of the market continues to be a stronghold of independent agencies such as Strutt & Parker and its peers. Both countries are Labour strongholds and the party would have expected to dominate under first-past-the-post electoral systems. Moreover, trade union strongholds in the public sector are further threatened by ongoing privatisation. The worst slums tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, and the fanciest suburbs tend to be Republican strongholds. By invoking prohibitions in this way the nation seeks to establish universally acknowledged strongholds. For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice. California has the undeserved reputation of being a liberal stronghold, a land of progressive new ideas. Ganesh and Rohit hope to capitalise on their stronghold of creativity and use of actual sounds. The contemporary music scene was the stronghold of disco and stadium rock, the two bland ends of a narrow spectrum. Their strongholds lie in the cities in which many students, academics, civil servants and public employees live. In fact, the Foreign Ministry has been a stronghold of fascist continuity. No, there'll be no libelling their stronghold as the ‘land of rain’, true as it may be. His right wing PAN party lost legislative seats and governorships in places long considered PAN strongholds. He has been to Democrat strongholds, Republican bastions and across the battleground states of the Midwest. Traditional strongholds in western regions have also experienced big rises. However, the party failed to progress beyond its regional strongholds even after it had reshaped itself into the Canadian Alliance. It is why the pro-choice side is losing ground now outside its strongholds on the coasts. Synonyms bastion, centre, refuge, hotbed Definition of stronghold in US English: stronghold nounˈstrɔŋˌhoʊldˈstrôNGˌhōld 1A place that has been fortified so as to protect it against attack. Example sentencesExamples We are taking the fight into the strongholds of the enemy, and we are dealing the enemy blow after blow, damaging it daily. If Brocade is to protect its stronghold there, it too needs to offer an end-to-end solution. Government troops recently violated a ceasefire, attacking a rebel stronghold in the north. They were able to build a fortified town and a stronghold they called a vault in case of an assault. He tried without success to attack the Frankish strongholds while the Crusader army was pinned down in Egypt. The charter references to ‘fortress-work’ imply fortified strongholds rather than dykes. In this mode you make a custom fighter, then you go through a tactical game of taking enemy strongholds to fortify your battlefield position. He demonstrated the value of infantry strongholds, when they were properly supported, to inhibit enemy armoured thrusts. The use of dummy strongholds and targets can minimize fire impact of an attacking enemy force 20 percent to 30 percent. Iraqi strongholds and fortified areas were sealed off with a part of coalition forces. World War I saw the evolution of a new fortification setup combining field strongholds with fortresses. By this time, they had gained control over all the bastions, strongholds and fortifications surrounding the city. The system of defense positions is built on a combination of strongholds, ambushes, fire pockets, and armor group positions. They appeared to drive the enemy from the capital within days and then mounted attacks on rebel strongholds elsewhere. Cadeyrn was gone from the palace for days at a time, visiting forts along the coast and the strongholds of his warlords. At the same time opposition forces began building fortified strongholds in hard-to-access mountainous areas. It has been deployed to fill in for American combat troops required for the attack on the rebel stronghold. Successive English strongholds have fallen to outsiders. The face smiled wickedly, waved, and vanished in a swirl of proud bastions and fortified strongholds. The government deployed additional military forces to attack terrorist strongholds. Synonyms fortress, fort, castle, citadel, garrison, keep, tower, hold, donjon, bunker 2A place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended or upheld. a Republican stronghold Example sentencesExamples Their strongholds lie in the cities in which many students, academics, civil servants and public employees live. By invoking prohibitions in this way the nation seeks to establish universally acknowledged strongholds. In fact, the Foreign Ministry has been a stronghold of fascist continuity. California has the undeserved reputation of being a liberal stronghold, a land of progressive new ideas. We will discover Nature's secret strongholds. No, there'll be no libelling their stronghold as the ‘land of rain’, true as it may be. Moreover, trade union strongholds in the public sector are further threatened by ongoing privatisation. Ganesh and Rohit hope to capitalise on their stronghold of creativity and use of actual sounds. For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice. His right wing PAN party lost legislative seats and governorships in places long considered PAN strongholds. Traditional strongholds in western regions have also experienced big rises. He has been to Democrat strongholds, Republican bastions and across the battleground states of the Midwest. The middle and upper end of the market continues to be a stronghold of independent agencies such as Strutt & Parker and its peers. They take in the Thornton & Allerton, and Clayton & Fairweather Green wards, both Tory strongholds in local elections. It is why the pro-choice side is losing ground now outside its strongholds on the coasts. Both countries are Labour strongholds and the party would have expected to dominate under first-past-the-post electoral systems. However, the party failed to progress beyond its regional strongholds even after it had reshaped itself into the Canadian Alliance. But Republicans also lost ground in some traditional strongholds. The worst slums tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, and the fanciest suburbs tend to be Republican strongholds. The contemporary music scene was the stronghold of disco and stadium rock, the two bland ends of a narrow spectrum. Synonyms bastion, centre, refuge, hotbed
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