bastion
Other forms: bastions
When the battle is getting long and the odds are getting longer, retreat to your bastion to regroup and prepare for the next round of fighting. A bastion is a stronghold or fortification that remains intact.
French Independence Day, or Bastille Day (July 14), commemorates the storming in 1789 of the French king's prison/fort, the Bastille. Bastion and Bastille share the root bast, which means "build." Bastion can refer to any place to which one turns for safety; that can include not only buildings but also concepts, ideas, and even beliefs. The Church, for example, is a bastion of many religious beliefs.
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projecting part of a rampart or other fortificationtype of:fortification, munitiondefensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
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a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
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a group that defends a principle“a bastion against corruption”“the last bastion of communism”type of:defence, defence force, defense, defense forcean organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
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When they are marooned on a deserted island, a group of schoolboys attempts to form a new society.
In the 1940s, a working class African-American family in Chicago must decide how to best spend a ten-thousand dollar insurance payout.