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bastions

bastions is the plural of bastion.

bastions is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bastion.

Meaning of bastion

Noun

bastion (plural bastions)

  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.1942, Emily Carr, “Beginnings”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
  2. A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
  3. (figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
    • a bastion of hope
  4. 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.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24

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Phrases with bastions

Questions about bastions

What is bastions the plural of?
Bastions is the plural of bastion.

Words near bastions in the dictionary

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

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