Definitions for redoubt

redoubt re·doubt

Spelling: [ri-dout]
IPA: /rɪˈdaʊt/

Redoubt is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in redoubt (bdeortu).

Definitions for redoubt

noun

  1. an isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point.
  2. an independent earthwork built within a permanent fortification to reinforce it.
  3. Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).

Origin of redoubt

1600-10; French redoute Italian ridotto Late Latin reductus a refuge, noun use of past participle of Latin redūcere to lead back; see reduce

Examples for redoubt

Meanwhile the British right center was held up by the redoubt.

Even so, he will be calling many of the shots from his Middle East redoubt, a reality few dispute.

Or does it want to remain a redoubt for a shrinking minority of older whites?

The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.

Howe disposed his forces in three columns, to attack the three faces of the redoubt.

For the men in the redoubt there were two more hours of waiting.

Putnam showed him the redoubt, saying, "There you will be covered."

The redoubt itself was at the apex of a broad angle of trenches.

He and the troops then retreated across New Jersey to a winter redoubt.

Griffith was elected to a North Alabama district in 2008 that had long been a Democratic redoubt in the midst of a deep red sea.

Word Value for redoubt
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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