Definitions for rampart

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rampart ram·part

Spelling: [ram-pahrt, -pert]

IPA: /ˈræm pɑrt, -pərt/

Rampart is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in rampart (aamprrt).

Definitions for rampart

noun

1. Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
2. anything serving as a bulwark or defense.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with or as if with a rampart.

Origin of rampart

1575-85; Middle French, derivative of remparer, equivalent to re- re- + emparer to take possession of Provençal amparar ≪ Latin ante- ante- + p

Examples for rampart

Others shot their horses and built a rampart of their bodies.

The department has not changed since the rampart and Rodney King days.

A pallid sun, low, gleaming just over a rampart of mountain-tops.

Until he, Ercwlf, Descended into the fosse of the rampart, And was covered with sand.

In rampart, Woody Harrelson plays a corrupt, violent LAPD officer.

And, Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson as corrupt characters in, respectively, Safe House and rampart.

We went, and walked in silence to and fro along the rampart of the fortress.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story misstated the official release date of rampart.

I first discovered Hitchens from the other side of the rampart.

It was certain death for any Indian to step from behind his rampart.