Definitions for bastilles

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bastilles bas·tille

Spelling: [ba-steel; French bas-tee-y Bastilles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 484 anagrams from letters in bastilles (abeillsst).

Definitions for bastilles

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 bastilles

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 bastilles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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