Definitions for Bastille

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Bastille bas·tille

Spelling: [ba-steel; French bas-tee-y Bastille is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 391 anagrams from letters in Bastille (abeillst).

Definitions for Bastille

noun

1. (initial capital letter) a fortress in Paris, used as a prison, built in the 14th century and destroyed July 14, 1789.
2. any prison or jail, especially one conducted in a tyrannical way.
3. a fortified tower, as of a castle; a small fortress; citadel.

Origin of Bastille

1350-1400; Middle English bastile Middle French, probably alteration of bastide bastide, with -ile (Medieval Latin, Latin -īle noun suffix of place) replacing -ide

Examples for Bastille

The bloody effervescence of the bastille gave way to Robespierre and then Napoleon; Stalin crushed Trotsky.

This time Hathelin had not the honour of the bastille; he was sent to some depot.

You did good service at the taking of the bastille, citizen?

This Bouquet is a rascal who will be more likely to end in the bastille than I, who did but defend my own.

In the winter, for being second in a duel, he was sent to the bastille.

Inform the Tribunal of what you did that day within the bastille, citizen.

With a fine (if unnoticed) stroke of irony, the bill was signed into law on bastille Day, July 4.

Neither the bastille nor the Beatles could inspire us to overhaul life itself.

Witness a brown cardboard sign held high on Sunday night at the bastille.

Anyone hoping to learn what bastille Day is all about would do well to start here.