bastion
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- noun
- /ˈbæs.tʃən/
- Because whatever we say about the faults of America, it still has been the bastion of democracy.
- the last bastion
- a conservative bastion
- bastions of privilege
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Watch on YouTubeI'm certain Texas, Florida, Virginia maybe will become the sort of last bastion of the free world.
- I'm certain Texas, Florida, Virginia maybe will become the sort of last bastion of the free world.
- And Tabriz become sort of the last bastion of this constitutional democratic revolution.
- We have always been a bastion of what did they say, originality, which OK.
- They're the people who are the bastions of our heritage, our humour, our culture, the bricks and mortar.
- South Carolina is a Bible Belt state, a bastion of conservatism and of a Southern tradition of protecting women.
- Our role is to really be the bastion and the refuge of unconditional presence, unconditional acceptance.
- And we'll just hold back here in a bastion of privilege and say those people, you know, they're no good.
- And we need to be the nonprofit that's going to be a bastion of transparency and do AI development in service of the public good.
- He tried to make Yale when he became president a bastion of tradition and he did frankly, tradition, authority, Calvinism and federalism.
- This armies often being perceived as a bastion of blind obedience to authority.
Examples
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The nuclear family was promoted as the bastion of social order and stability.
Academic text (2013) -
We used to be something, a real bastion of higher learning.
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Consider Wisconsin, long a bastion of what some might call enlightened solid waste management.
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And some conservatives still regard the 9th Circuit as a bastion of liberalism.
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Of course, the United States has always fancied itself to be a bastion of free speech and unbridled expression.
Academic text (2003) -
It was a rich agricultural world which had long stood as a bastion of defiance.
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Tolstoy colony was a bastion of peace and free expression in this grievous time of war.
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Rome was the center and, say, New York, a bastion of materialism, corruption, and violence, was the periphery.
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The city is a bastion of bureaucratic Islam, redolent of Rome in the seventeenth century.
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The public sector also appears to be the last bastion of job security.
Synonyms
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A person who strongly supports a cause or another person
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A person who supports a belief, cause, or tradition
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
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A part of a fort wall that sticks out and has one front and one side for defence
- Archaic
A solid part of a fort at a corner, filled so the inside ground is level with the wall
- Archaic
A curved part of a fort wall shaped like a half moon for defenders to fire on attackers
- Specialized
A curved wall shaped like a half circle that sticks out from a fort to protect it
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Bastion comes from an old French verb bastir meaning 'to build', so think 'build'. A helpful way to remember the second meaning is to imagine an organization as a built fort for ideas, so a bastion of tradition is a place that protects and holds those values strong.