Bastion

Definitions

1. A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
2. A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
3. A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
   figuratively
4. Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.

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.”

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