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bastion Definition

bas·tion (basc̸hən, -tē ən)

noun

  1. a projection from a fortification, arranged to give a wider firing range
  2. any fortified place; strong defense or bulwark: often used figuratively

Etymology: Fr < MFr bastillon < OFr bastille: see bastille

bastion Related Forms
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.

—Smart, Christopher

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