bastion fort
- noun
- /ˈbæs.tʃən fɔrt/
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fortaleza de bastión
- The design of a bastion fort allowed defenders to cover all approaches with overlapping fields of fire.
Examples
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The city was protected by a massive bastion fort with eight projecting points to thwart attackers.
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Historians studied the remains of the bastion fort built during the Renaissance.
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The bastion fort stood tall against the invading army.
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Many bastion forts were built during the Renaissance period.
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The city was protected by a massive bastion fort with eight projecting points to thwart attackers.
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Historians studied the remains of the bastion fort built during the Renaissance.
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The design of a bastion fort allowed defenders to cover all approaches with overlapping fields of fire.
Synonyms
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A strong building where soldiers live to defend an area
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A protected place, often a castle, where people defend themselves from attack
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A strong fortress near a city where people shelter during war
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A strong defensive place with pointed walls that stick out like a star
A fort with triangular walls pointing outwards that form a star shape to protect it
A fortress with pointed outer walls like a star so defenders can fire on attackers from many directions
A type of fortress design with many triangular outer walls that let defenders' guns cover each other
How Defended
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a fort characterized by bastions' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'bastion' (a protruding defensive structure) with 'fort' (a fortified place). This simple noun+noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately comprehensible to learners who know both constituent words.
Etymology
Bastion fort is a type of fort with several pointed bastions that stick out from the walls like triangles. Those points let soldiers see and shoot along the sides so there is no safe way in, so the name means a fort built to 'protect' or 'defend' from all directions.