Lexic.us

Definition of Bastille

1. Noun. A fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution.

2. Noun. A jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner).

Definition of Bastille

1. Proper noun. A prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution. ¹

2. Noun. A castle tower, or fortified building; a small citadel or fortress. ¹

3. Noun. A prison or jail. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bastille

1. a prison [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastille

bastardswords bastardy bastardy bond bastardy bonds bastardy proceeding baste basted bastegh baster basters

bastes bastide bastides bastile bastiles bastille (current term) bastilles bastillion bastillions bastinade

bastinaded bastinades bastinading bastinado bastinadoed bastinadoes bastinadoing bastinados basting bastings

Literary usage of Bastille

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Paris and Environs with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1900)
"52 has been taken, the visitor need not return to the bastille, but may proceed to the ... Another way of returning from the bastille ¡я indicated at p. ..."

2. The French Revolution of 1789 as Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1887)
"The bastille was often full to overflowing, but there were other ... It is the more necessary to dwell upon these details since the bastille was the mailed ..."

3. Paris by Peter Eckerlin, Elke Pastre (2001)
"00 Hotel Royal bastille, 14, rue de la Roquette, tel. 01 48 05 62 47, ... 01 42 72 05 23, Metro: bastille. Subsidiary of the well known brasserie ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"The. fall of the bastille Order was now at an end in Paris. ... Another party with the same object attacked the bastille. [1789 -. >,.,,) : ; The bastille ..."

5. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"bastille. In former times the term bastille denoted a fortification extra ... It was at first intended that the bastille should serve as a stronghold of ..."

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