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bastion

[ bas-chuhn, -tee-uhn ]

noun

  1. Fortification. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.
  2. a fortified place.

    Synonyms: , , , ,

  3. anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.:

    a bastion of solitude; a bastion of democracy.



bastion

/ ˈæɪə /

noun

  1. a projecting work in a fortification designed to permit fire to the flanks along the face of the wall
  2. any fortified place
  3. a thing or person regarded as upholding or defending an attitude, principle, etc

    the last bastion of opposition

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·پDz·· [bas, -ch, uh, -ner-ee], adjective
  • tDzԱ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bastion1

1590–1600; < Middle French < Italian bastione, equivalent to Upper Italian í ( a ) bastion, originally, fortified, built (cognate with Italian bastita, past participle of bastire to build < Germanic; baste 1 ) + -one augmentative suffix
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bastion1

C16: from French, from earlier bastillon bastion, from bastille Bastille
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Now, the avengers agreed, they were the “last bastion of defense” for the masses.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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