Definitions for bastion

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bastion bas·tion

Spelling: [bas-chuh n, -tee-uh n]

IPA: /ˈbæs tʃən, -ti ən/

Bastion is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in bastion (abinost).

Definitions for bastion

noun

1. Fortification. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.
2. a fortified place.
3. anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.:

Origin of bastion

1590-1600; Middle French Italian bastione, equivalent to Upper Italian bastí(a) bastion, orig., fortified, built (cognate with Italian bastita, past participle of bastire to build Germanic; s

Examples for bastion

Captain Neville, into the battery, and fire twenty rounds at the bastion!

We go out by an entrance on to a bastion, flanking the gate.

The tweets linking to the National Review, that bastion of LGBT equality.

Continuing along the bastion the limit of the northern wall is soon reached.

Kentucky, a bastion of anti-government ire, is the top state for Obamacare enrollment.

We sat in a corner of the bastion, so that we could see everything on both sides.

Kaine could be boosted by his subcommittee, a bastion of support for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

But that was not to be, and Kansas will continue as a Republican bastion for the foreseeable future.

Fairfax County, the most populous jurisdiction in the state, was once a Republican bastion.

It was a flat mesa rising sharply as a sort of bastion from the rim-rock.