Word Meanings - FORTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. Syn. -- Fortress, Fortification, Castle, Citadel. A fortress is constructed for military purposes

Additional info about word: FORTRESS

A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. Syn. -- Fortress, Fortification, Castle, Citadel. A fortress is constructed for military purposes only, and is permanently garrisoned; a fortification is built to defend harbors, cities, etc.; a castle is a fortress of early times which was ordinarily a palatial dwelling; a citadel is the stronghold of a fortress or city, etc. (more info) fortelesce, LL. foralitia, fr. L. fortis strong. See Fort, and cf.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORTRESS)

• Bulwark
• Rampart
• fortress
• fortification
• palladium
• citadel
• intrenchment
• stronghold
• parapet
• bastion
• Citadel
• Fortress
• castle
• acropolis

Related words: (words related to FORTRESS)

• CASTLEWARD
  See CASTLEGUARD
• CASTLE
  1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh
• RAMPART
  A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
• CASTLET
  A small castle. Leland.
• BASTIONED
  Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
• BULWARK
  A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork. 2. That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection. The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense, . . . the floating bulwark of our
• CASTLERY
  The government of a castle. Blount.
• PARAPETALOUS
  Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.
• STRONGHOLD
  A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
• FORTRESS
  A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. Syn. -- Fortress, Fortification, Castle, Citadel. A fortress is constructed for military purposes
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
• CASTLED
  Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
• CITADEL
  A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.
• PALLADIUM
  Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy. 2. Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our
• ACROPOLIS
  The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
• FORTIFICATION
  1. The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy. 2. That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a
• CASTLE-GUARD
  A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. 3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
• PARAPET
  A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. (more info) guard + petto the breast, L. pectus.
• PALLADIUMIZE
  To cover or coat with palladium.
• PARAPETED
  Having a parapet.
• REFORTIFICATION
  A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.
• DEMIBASTION
  A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
• UNCASTLE
  To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
• COMFORTRESS
  A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.