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(n)
A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
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A strong fortress that sits high above a city.
(figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
A place built to withstand attack; a fortress.
A defense or safeguard.
(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
A wealthy and powerful business person.
(psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
A surname.
The quality or degree of being strong.
A fortified wine.
(adv)
Extremely; greatly; very much.
The state of being firm
The quality of being robust.
(colloquial) A loud sound or part of a sound.
(countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
A surname, variant of Verey.
(uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
The state of being certain.
(adj)
Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
A municipality, the state capital of Ceará, Brazil.
An unincorporated community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
A Scottish topographic surname from Scottish Gaelic from Gaelic words meaning "foot of a hill"
(v)
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
A place of safety or refuge.
(military) An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts.
(uncountable) The quality or state of being fast (in various senses).
The Athenian Acropolis. (Compare acropolis.)
A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.
A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
(military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
A low protective wall.
A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
The fortified tower and main residence of a motte or early castle; a keep.
The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
Pregnant.
(physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
(military) A fortified position; a stronghold.
Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
A fortress or fortified position.
(uncountable) Employment.
A tower built into and forming part of a line of fortification or a fortified city wall.
An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in Bordeaux.
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
A citadel or fortress, especially one that protects a city.
A tall, fortified stone building intended for habitation.
(fortifications) A bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath it, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.
(historical) A small Roman detached fort or fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station.
A hillfort, a walled fortification.
A fortified dwelling place belonging to a king or noble; a prehistoric fort.
The foremost outer wall of a fortification; rampart, bulwark.
A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
(architecture) The section of a wall or rampart between two gates, bastions, towers or the like.
(figurative) Daydreaming.
A tower in the center of a premodern Chinese city that houses signal drums.
A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V.
(in scientific research) The collection of raw data, in the field
A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
(of a person or thing) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.
Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
The site of a farm with its associated buildings; a farmstead.
Alternative spelling of strongroom. [A strongly built room or vault where valuables may be safely stored.]
Construction in the form of a tower or towers.
A station for guards, especially at the entrance of a town, castle, etc.
(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
A place where state or royal money and valuables are stored.
A small castle.
A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
A hidden supply or fund.
A lid.
A farm, including its buildings.
The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
(countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
A buttress built against a wall.
A store or supply.
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
A strongly built room or vault where valuables may be safely stored.
A stopping place.
A sturdy box with a lock, for storing valuables.
An act of installing.