Meaning of Bastion | Babel Free
ˈbæsti.ənDefinitions
Equivalents
Examples
“[…] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.”
“a bastion of hope⟳”
“the bastion of democracy”
“[…] yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a labouring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.”
“It spread⟳ slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light⟳, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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