bastions

Meaning of bastions

plural noun
  1. a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions.
  2. an institution, place, or person strongly maintaining particular principles, attitudes, or activities.
    cricket's last bastion of discrimination

mid 16th century: from French, from Italian bastione, from bastire ‘build’.

Information about bastions

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of bastions is: bastion.
  • Languages ​​in which bastions is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of bastions

bas-tions

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • bastions is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

bastions synonyms

Meaning a defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet:

rampart

Meaning a person or thing that acts as a defence:

bulwark

Meaning a protective wall or earth defence along the top of a trench or other place of concealment for troops:

parapet

Meaning a defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen a place against attack:

fortification

Meaning a structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it:

buttress

Meaning a section of a fortification or system of defence which is in front of the main part:

outwork

Meaning an estimate or forecast of a future situation based on a study of present trends:

projection

Meaning a low temporary defence or parapet:

breastwork

Meaning a temporary or supplementary fortification, typically square or polygonal and without flanking defences:

redoubt

Meaning the outer defence of a castle or walled city, especially a double tower above a gate or drawbridge:

barbican

Meaning a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals:

stockade

Meaning a fence of wooden stakes or iron railings fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure or defence:

palisade

Meaning a battlemented parapet or an overhanging corner turret at the top of a castle or church tower:

bartizan

Meaning a place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended or upheld:

stronghold

Meaning a person who defends someone or something:

defender

Meaning a thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright:

support

Meaning a person who approves of and encourages a public figure, political party, policy, etc:

supporter

Meaning a person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person assigned to protect a person or to control access to a place:

guard

Meaning a person or thing that protects someone or something:

protection, protector

Meaning a pole or beam used as a temporary support or to keep something in position:

prop

Meaning a person or thing on which something else is based or depends:

mainstay

Anagrams of bastions

antiboss

Words that rhyme with bastions

ions, eccaleobions, excambions, gabions, symbions, Halcions, cions, coercions, epinicions, scions, suspicions, unsuspicions, accordions, collodions, diacodions, encheiridions, enchiridions, gammadions, melodions, pyramidions, rhipidions, stasidions, tordions, turdions, Legions, analogions, bioregions, contagions, euchologions, irreligions, legions, logions, regions, religions, subregions, tragions, trisagions, Malathions, antifashions, apocynthions, cushions, ethions, falchions, fashions, fauchions, faulchions, fenthions, fushions, gnathions, gumphions

Are you looking more rhymes for bastions? Try our rhymes search engine.