Word.ws English Dictionary

Fort Knox

Fort Knox proper noun: a United States Army base located in Kentucky, United States.

Proper noun

Fort Knox

  1. A United States Army base located in Kentucky, United States.
  2. The United States Bullion Depository, a vault where gold reserves are stored.

Noun

Fort Knox

  1. (figuratively) A place which is very difficult to access or enter.
    • After the security upgrades, the facility was essentially Fort Knox.

Origin of Fort Knox

Named after Henry Knox, the Continental Army's chief of artillery during the American Revolution and the first United States Secretary of War.

Words formed from Fort Knox

Questions about Fort Knox

What does Fort Knox mean?
Fort Knox means a United States Army base located in Kentucky, United States.
What part of speech is Fort Knox?
Fort Knox can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Fort Knox in the dictionary

  1. Fort Huachuca
  2. Fort Irwin
  3. Fort Jones
  4. Fort Kent
  5. Fort Kinnaird
  6. Fort Knox
  7. Fort Lauderdale
  8. Fort Lee
  9. Fort Liard
  10. Fort Lupton
  11. Fort Macleod

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Fort Knox (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Fort Knox.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fort_knox. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.