Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fortified place or position stationed with troops.
- noun A permanent army post.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
fortification . - Strong.
- Tipsy.
- noun A strong place of defense; a fortified building or inclosure; especially, an armed place for a garrison, provided with defensive works, for the protection of a town, harbor, frontier, or other point against the approach or passage of hostile forces.
- noun A trading-post among the North American Indians, whether fortified or not.
- noun Same as
forte , 1. - To occupy a fort.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fortified defensive structurestationed withtroops - noun Any
permanent army post
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense
- noun a fortified defensive structure
- verb enclose by or as if by a fortification
- noun a fortified military post where troops are stationed
- verb station (troops) in a fort
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Olo means _fort_ and Senga a _parrot_, and hence the island was called Olosenga -- the fort or refuge of parrots.
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner
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September 8, 10 A.M., the marchers advance through the woods on Johnson's fort, when suddenly they learn that their scout has lied, -- _Johnson himself is still at the fort_.
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"_Geschiedene Leute scheiden fort und fort_": divorced people sever forever.
Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894
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At the same time, I have heard Germans quote the saying -- "_Geschiedene Leute scheiden fort und fort_," and object strongly to associate with anyone, however innocent, who had been connected with a matrimonial scandal.
Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894
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This fort is a larger version of the more common and much smaller fortified compounds known as qala that characterize the rural zones of eastern and southern Afghanistan and the wider region.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Next to this fort is a small settlement of Chinese pirates [ladroes] and fishermen.
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The view from the fort is the only place where you can see the three islands located off the coast at the same time.
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I went to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, once and one of the flags that flew over a fort is there with bullit holes and burn marks on it, so in some ways maybe the small stain on my grandmothers flag adds to the ambiance about it?!
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The view from the fort is the only place where you can see the three islands located off the coast at the same time.
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Now a wall of the fort is at the left edge of the drive.
lklipfel commented on the word fort
Related to fortify.
December 3, 2020