Lexic.us

Definition of Bastion

1. Noun. A group that defends a principle. "The last bastion of communism"

2. Noun. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.

3. Noun. Projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.

Definition of Bastion

1. n. A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

Definition of Bastion

1. Noun. a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification ¹

2. Noun. a well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively) a person, or thing, who strongly defends some principle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bastion

1. a fortified place [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastion

bastille bastilles bastillion bastillions bastinade bastinaded bastinades bastinading bastinado bastinadoed

bastinadoes bastinadoing bastinados basting bastings bastion (current term) bastioned bastions bastirma bastle

bastles bastnaesite bastnaesites bastnasite bastnasites basto baston bastonade bastonaded bastonades

Literary usage of Bastion

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

1. The Sanctuary of Athena Nike in Athens: Architectural Stages and Chronology by Ira S. Mark (1993)
"The partial dismantling of the Classical bastion in 1936 and 1937 left its Mycenaean predecessor fully exposed on the south and along most of the west. ..."

2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"By this time, the Flagstaff bastion had been state of under a fire of great ... On the loth of April again, the Flagstaff bastion Peril of lay stricken ..."

3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"... the French on their part would assault the town front, and in particular the Flagstaff bastion. Even when thus reduced and confined in its scope, ..."

4. Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. by Samuel Carter Hall (1843)
"It was on this bastion that the governor erected a gallows to have executed ... The Royall bastion, so called from the advancing of the red flagg upon it, ..."

5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"The fat forty-pound muzzle-loaders on the east bastion made very comfortable resting-places. You could sprawl full length on the iron warmed by the ..."

6. An universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"Flat bastion 7 isone that hasa Ram- P/an bastion i part and a Parapet, ... Solid bastion, is that which hath in Earth equal to the Height of the Rampart, ..."

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