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bastion
[ bas-chuhn, -tee-uhn ]
noun
- Fortification. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.
- a fortified place.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.:
a bastion of solitude; a bastion of democracy.
bastion
/ ˈæɪə /
noun
- a projecting work in a fortification designed to permit fire to the flanks along the face of the wall
- any fortified place
- a thing or person regarded as upholding or defending an attitude, principle, etc
the last bastion of opposition
Other yvlog Forms
- ·پDz·· [bas, -ch, uh, -ner-ee], adjective
- tDzԱ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bastion1
Example Sentences
Now, the avengers agreed, they were the “last bastion of defense” for the masses.
The 9th Circuit, once the left flank of the federal appellate system and the president’s self-proclaimed adversary, is no longer a bastion of legal resistance.
Economically vital parts of the country, such as the resource-rich northeast and the rebels’ bastion in the northwest, remained out of Assad’s control.
There, he met and fell for his future wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, who played a similar role in Season 3 of “The Real World,” set in the liberal bastion of San Francisco.
Yes, that’s Texas, which is not generally known as a bastion of freedom or the place where bias goes to die.
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