a person, or thing, who strongly defends some principle, a well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel, a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification, If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended. a town which had been a bastion of white prejudice The army is still one of the last male bastions. = stronghold, a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification; in landscape gardening, a bastion is a projecting section of the ha-ha, A habitual involvement in a particular endeavor or realm of experience, which is observed every day at the same time Once established, a bastion enables us to make use of the force of routine habit to grow and develop our potential to be alive and active in the world around us, A work consisting of two faces and two flanks, all of the angles being salient A curtain connects two bastions Viewed from the interior of the fort the bastion is divided at the salient creating a right face/flank and a left face/flank, projecting part of a rampart or other fortification, The portion of the wall that protruded from the primary structure These usually took an oval or round shape and angled sharply The bastions offered additional protection to the castle, projecting part of a rampart or other fortification a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism, A large or massive rock outcrop which projects forward from a valley wall or icefield, Somebody or something regarded as providing strong defense or support, a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle, A massive groyne, or projecting section of seawall normally constructed with its crest above water level, A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall; solid masonry projection; structural rather than inhabitable, A projecting work having two faces and two flanks so constructed that the adjacent curtain may be defended from it, A solid masonry projection, fortress, stronghold, castle, Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other, In military architecture, an angular and pointed projection, often diamond-shaped and usually located at a corner, that enabled gunners to defend the ramparts and curtains of a fortification, See Ravelin, A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another, A lunette is a detached bastion, The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge, a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism", plural of bastion,
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a person, or thing, who strongly defends some principle
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a well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel
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a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
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If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended. a town which had been a bastion of white prejudice The army is still one of the last male bastions. = stronghold
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a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification; in landscape gardening, a bastion is a projecting section of the ha-ha
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A habitual involvement in a particular endeavor or realm of experience, which is observed every day at the same time Once established, a bastion enables us to make use of the force of routine habit to grow and develop our potential to be alive and active in the world around us
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A work consisting of two faces and two flanks, all of the angles being salient A curtain connects two bastions Viewed from the interior of the fort the bastion is divided at the salient creating a right face/flank and a left face/flank
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projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
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The portion of the wall that protruded from the primary structure These usually took an oval or round shape and angled sharply The bastions offered additional protection to the castle
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projecting part of a rampart or other fortification a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism
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A large or massive rock outcrop which projects forward from a valley wall or icefield
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Somebody or something regarded as providing strong defense or support
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a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
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A massive groyne, or projecting section of seawall normally constructed with its crest above water level
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A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall; solid masonry projection; structural rather than inhabitable
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A projecting work having two faces and two flanks so constructed that the adjacent curtain may be defended from it
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A solid masonry projection
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fortress, stronghold, castle isim
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Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other
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In military architecture, an angular and pointed projection, often diamond-shaped and usually located at a corner, that enabled gunners to defend the ramparts and curtains of a fortification
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See Ravelin
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A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another
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A lunette is a detached bastion
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The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge
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a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism"
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