bastionnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbæs.ti.ən/us/ˈbæs.ti.ən/something that keeps or defends a belief or a way of life that is disappearing or threatened:
British public schools are regarded as one of the last bastions of upper-class privilege.
a part of the wall of a castle that sticks out from it in order to protect it
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Things remaining
- (and) all the rest idiom
- balance
- cutpiece
- deposit
- dregs
- for the rest idiom
- ground
- leftover
- remainder
- remains
- remnant
- residual
- residue
- rest
- ruin
- rump
- throwback
- time capsule
- vestige
- wreckage
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