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bastion
/ˈbæsti.ən/
noun 4verb 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
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BASTION + NOUN
democracy
Definitions
noun
1
A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
[…] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.
2
A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
3
A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
a bastion of hope
the bastion of democracy
4
Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
[…] yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a labouring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
verb
1
To furnish with a bastion.
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Synonyms
noun — a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a
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[…] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.
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a bastion of hope
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the bastion of democracy
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