Definitions for ramparts

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ramparts ram·part

Spelling: [ram-pahrt, -pert]

IPA: /ˈræm pɑrt, -pərt/

Ramparts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in ramparts (aamprrst).

Definitions for ramparts

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 ramparts

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

Examples for ramparts

The 18th Street Gang was named after the locus of its birth in the ramparts section.

He despatched him with orders to the different posts guarding the ramparts.

So off Gilian would go with his book under his arm to the ramparts.

The Rev. Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh rushed to the ramparts immediately.

Voters grabbed their pitchforks Tuesday night and came over the ramparts.

We would set aside all other agendas and disputes as secondary, and go to the ramparts until the threat was repelled.

If ghules, argents and ramparts are extra, I am prepared to pay.

Against this sulfurous backdrop, Democrats and Republicans alike feel compelled to man the ramparts for their core constituencies.

It was easy walking, for a little path ran all outside the ramparts.

It reminded her of a small lane outside the ramparts of Plassans.