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bastionlike

bastionlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bastion.

Adjective

bastionlike (comparative more bastionlike, superlative most bastionlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bastion.
    • We pointed to the bastionlike range we had just come over, the thousands of feet we must climb again to reach the track: […]1964 August, Sheila Burnford, “Walking”, in The Atlantic
    • Even from his office in the bastionlike Municipal Building, 19 stories above the silently bustling city, the pressure to run pulls like aggravated gravity on the first-term 61-year-old Manhattan Borough President.1988 November 28, Michel Marriott, “To Run or Not to Run: Dinkins's Struggle”, in The New York Times

Forms of bastionlike

comparativemore bastionlike
superlativemost bastionlike

Origin of bastionlike

From bastion + -like.

Questions about bastionlike

What does bastionlike mean?
Bastionlike means resembling or characteristic of a bastion.
What part of speech is bastionlike?
Bastionlike is an adjective.

Words near bastionlike in the dictionary

  1. bastionary
  2. bastioned
  3. bastionet
  4. bastionets
  5. bastioning
  6. bastionlike
  7. bastions
  8. bastirma
  9. bastis
  10. bastle
  11. bastles

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