bastion
bastion
Definition
bas·tion (bas′c̸hən, -tē ən)
noun
- a projection from a fortification, arranged to give a wider firing range
- any fortified place; strong defense or bulwark: often used figuratively
Etymology: Fr < MFr bastillon < OFr bastille: see bastille
bas′·tioned adjective
bastion
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- remain: Reality TV is & should remain the last bastion of the desperate.
- become: In the Collas Sector, which had become the bastion of the strike, its efforts to fight back were crowned with success.
- project: The entrance is visible in the long front wall with its projecting bastions.
- form: In a world of mass market eateries, the Dixon trio forms a bastion of affordable, high quality food in highly individual surroundings.
Preposition: at
- corner: The rampart was thence extended along the northern side of the city to the great Martinengo bastion at the northwest corner.
Adjective modifier
- circular: A series if semi circular bastions were constructed along the east and south sides of the Roman walls.
- last: The last bastion of native Red Kites in the UK.
- remaining: It is so because America is the remaining bastion of political liberty.
- male: Did any of her colleagues mind that she was a woman in a male bastion?
- massive: View looking across the moat toward one of the massive bastions of Dig Fort.
- former: The chronicles mention the destruction of Dunbar, former Northumbrian bastion against the Picts, possibly as a naval base.
Modifies a noun
- host: Policy A Bastion host is a network system that may be exposed to attack from other internal or external network systems.
- tower: The sites of bastion towers may be detected where there are breaks in the bank and ditch of the outer bailey.
Preposition: in
- city: The PT was constructing important electoral bastions in the cities, under the banner of its much-vaunted ' participatory budget ' .
Preposition: of
- capitalism: This is not a very popular view, especially in the bastion of capitalism, the United States.
- privilege: Tennis is one of the last remaining bastions of class privilege in this country.
- liberty: Thus the National Rifle Association, of which you are a member, is the worldwide bastion of human liberty.
- democracy: Far from being a bastion of democracy, the Houses of Parliament are a reminder that we are still living in a United Kingdom.
- freedom: In a good number of places, writing is the last bastion of freedom.
- culture: Nothing is acceptable unless it has the approval of the masses, as guided by the celebrities who are the bastions of the culture.
bastion Quotes
Strong is the lionölike a coal His eye-ballölike a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong, the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide, th'enormous whale Emerges as he goes.
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