bastion

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.

   • […] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.
2. 2

   A well-fortified position

   A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.

3. 3

   A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.

   • a bastion of hope
   • the bastion of democracy
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   1. 4

      Any large prominence

      Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.

      • […] yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, ⁠And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
      • It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
   2. 5

      To furnish with a bastion.

The neighborhood

• neighborbastille