Bastion

Definitions: Bastion

Bastion

Noun

1. A group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism".

2. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.

3. Projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bastion" was first used: 1562. (references)

Literature

Military

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Bastion

Defense

Breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin; vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt; fort-elage, fort-alice; lines.

Crosswords: Bastion

Afrikaan (bastion), Albanian (stronghold), Dutch (bastion, rampart), French (bastion, stronghold), German (bastion, bulwark, ramparts), Romanian (bastion, bulwark, fastness, stronghold), Swedish (bastion).

Big Tobacco tried to smear Wigand, you bought it. The Wall Street Journal, here, not exactly a bastion of anti-capitalist sentiment, refutes Big Tobacco's smear campaign as the lowest form of character assassination! (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Morality. The last bastion of coward. (Ravenous; writing credit: Ted Griffin)

Bastion de Provence Avignon (1951)

The Last Bastion (1984)

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Books

• Bastion (reference)

• Bastion Falls (reference)

• Bastion of Broken Souls (reference)

• Bastion of Darkness (Chronicles of Ynis Aielle, Bk 3) (reference)

• Hitler's Fortress Cherbourg: The Conquest of a Bastion (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Bastion pins the Distinguished Service Cross on Capt. Charles L. Thomas, commander of a tank destroyer company in France] / Signal Corps, U.S Army.Credit: Library of Congress.

The Water battery and bastion of Fort Marion, St. Augustine.Credit: Library of Congress.

Ditch of the Bastion du Mât / W. Simpson del. ; E. Walker lith. ; Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.Credit: Library of Congress.

Ditch of the Bastion du Mât / W. Simpson del. ; E. Walker lith. ; Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.Credit: Library of Congress.

Bastion du Mat, from the central bastion / W. Simpson del. ; E. Walker lith. ; Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.Credit: Library of Congress.

Tall Zaatar, bastion revolutionnaire.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Human Rights

Colombia

According to press reports, local officials said that the mass slaying signals a possible push by the AUC into the mineral rich region that had been a bastion of guerrillas. (references)

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Expressions using "bastion": bastion host ♦ Face of a bastion ♦ Tower bastion. Additional references.

Afrikaan

bastion. (various references)

Albanian

kullë (Barton, belfry, rook, steeple, tower), fortesë (citadel, Fort, fortress, gusset, presidio, stronghold). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منطقة محصنة, ‏معقل (castle, citadel, fort, fortress, hold, redoubt, strong point, stronghold), ‏حصن (arm, beef up, bulwark, castle, chateau, citadel, entrench, fort, fortification, fortify, fortress, hold, immunize, redoubt, stronghold, tower, trench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бастион (rampart). (various references)

Chinese 

本营. (various references)

Czech

bašta (bulwark, grub). (various references)

Dutch

bolwerk (rampart), bastion (rampart), rondeel. (various references)

Esperanto

bastiono. (various references)

Farsi 

سنگرواستحکامات , باستیون . (various references)

French

bastion. (various references)

German

bastion (bulwark, ramparts), bastei, bollwerk (bulwark, stronghold). (various references)

Greek 

έπαλξη (battlement, rampart), προμαχώνασ (parapet), προπύργιο (bulwark, rampart). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבצר (citadel, fortification, fortress, stronghold), חל (bulwark, due, in force, rampart), חומת מ�'ן, �"יק (breastwork, bulwark, dike, dyke, mole, rampart). (various references)

Hungarian

bástya (bulwark, Castle, house, round house, tower). (various references)

Indonesian

baluarti (fortress). (various references)

Italian

bastione (Bailey, bulwark, rampart), baluardo (rampart). (various references)

Manx

doon (dun, earth fort, fastness, fort, fortified rock, stronghold). (various references)

Pig Latin

astionbay

Portuguese

bastião (bulwark, stronghold), baluarte (bulwark, fortify, paraphernalia, rampart, redoubt, sconce, stronghold, supporter). (various references)

Romanian

bastion (bulwark, fastness, stronghold). (various references)

Russian 

бастион (bulward, bulwark, rampart). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bedem (bulwark, causeway, causey, rampart), bastijon. (various references)

Spanish

baluarte (backstop, bulwark, citadel, confederacy, housing, rampart, stronghold). (various references)

Swedish

bastion. (various references)

Turkish

burç (Bush, constellation, dungeon, horoscope, rook, sign, sign of the zodiac, steeple, tower), tabya (redoubt), kale (Castle, citadel, Fort, fortress, goal, home, home plate, keep, rook, stronghold, tower, uprights), iyi korunan yer (stronghold). (various references)

Ukranian 

бастіон (bulwark). (various references)

Vietnamese 

th� nh luỹ (citadel, fastness, held, hold, wall), pháo đ� i (fastness, fortress, keep, kept). (various references)

bastir. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bastion": bastioned, bastions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bastion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abtion, astano, baastii, bacino, Bactriana, Baksteen, baktrian, Banston, Basiti, Bassiouni, Bassirou, Bastan, Basti, bastiano, bastie, bastien, Bastienne, bastina, bastione, bastioni, Bastogne, batian, bation, batzio, Bayston, Beaston, Beston, biston, Blastoid, boschian, Botsio, Brauston, Bustino, bustion, bution, castion, mastino, Nasution. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bonitas, obtains.

-1 letter: basion, batons, bionts, biotas, bonita, bonsai, obtain.

-2 letters: antis, baits, basin, baton, bints, biont, biota, bison, boast, boats, botas, iotas, nabis, obias, obits, ostia, sabin, sabot, saint, santo, satin, stain, stoai, tains.

-3 letters: abos, ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, bait, bani, bans, bast, bats, bias, bins, bint, bios, bits, boas, boat, bota, bots, into, ions, iota, isba, nabs, naoi, naos, nibs, nits, nobs, nota, oast, oats, obia, obis, obit, sain, sati, snib, snit, snob, snot, stab, stoa, stob, tabs, tain, tans, taos, tins, tons.

-4 letters: abo, abs, ain, ais, ait, ani, ant, ban, bas, bat, bin, bio, bis, bit, boa, bos, bot, ins, ion, its, nab, nib, nit, nob, nos, not, oat, obi, ons, sab, sat, sib, sin, sit, sob, son, sot, tab, tan, tao, tas, tin, tis, ton.

-5 letters: ab, ai, an, as, at, ba, bi, bo, in, is, it, na, no, on, os, si, so, ta, ti, to.

+1 letter: antiboss, antisnob, banjoist, bastions, boasting, boatings, botanies, botanise, botanist, niobates, obeisant, taborins.

+2 letters: ablations, ablutions, abortions, abutilons, ambitions, banjoists, baritones, bastinado, bastioned, biathlons, boatswain, boltonias, botanicas, botanised, botanises, botanists, botanizes, isobutane, libations, lobations, oblations, obstinacy, obstinate, obtainers, reobtains, sanbenito, sublation, taborines, tailbones.

+3 letters: abductions, abiogenist, abjections, abolitions, abominates, abruptions, absolution, absorption, abstention, aitchbones, antibioses, antibiosis, antibodies, badmintons, balloonist, ballpoints, bandicoots, barbitones, bassoonist, battalions, bloodstain, boatswains, bombinates, botanicals, botanising, brainstorm, brominates, cobaltines, incubators, isobutanes, librations, obeisantly, obviations, probations, sabotaging, sanbenitos, sibilation, sublations, substation, vibrations.

+4 letters: abdications, aberrations, abiogenists, abjurations, abnegations, abolishment, abominators, abortionist, abreactions, abrogations, absolutions, absorptions, abstentions, abstentious, abstraction, ambulations, antibaryons, antibiotics, antiobesity, balloonists, baronetcies, bassoonists, bastinadoed, bastinadoes, bilocations, bisectional, bloodstains, bloviations, brainstorms, buccinators, butylations, cohabitants, dubitations, geobotanies, geobotanist, habitations, hebetations, hibernators, iceboatings, incubations, inobservant, intubations, isoantibody, jubilations, liberations, lobulations, nimbostrati, nonbotanist, noncabinets, obfuscating, obfuscation, obligations, obnubilates, obscurantic, obscuration, observation, obstinacies, obstinately, obtainments, obturations, outbargains, outboasting, sailboating, showboating, sibilations, stenobathic, subaudition, subdominant, subjugation, sublimation, subluxation, subnational, subordinate, subornation, subrational, subrogating, subrogation, substations, subtotaling, subtraction, tabulations, tambourines, tobacconist, tobogganist, trabeations, unambitious.

+5 letters: abolishments, abolitionism, abolitionist, abominations, abortionists, abortiveness, absolutizing, abstractions, adumbrations, ambitionless, amblygonites, antiboycotts, approbations, arbitrations, attributions, backstopping, bacteriocins, barnstorming, basification, bastinadoing, benefactions, bicarbonates, bifurcations, bipartitions, blastulation, bloodstained, bombinations, botherations, brachiations, brainstormed, brainstormer, brecciations, broadcasting, brominations, cabinetworks, calibrations, carbonations, carburetions, celebrations, cerebrations, combinations, conurbations, cybernations, debarkations, discountable, elaborations, embarkations, embrocations, enterobiases, enterobiasis, exorbitances, fabrications, fimbriations, geobotanists, habituations, haptoglobins, hibernations, imbrications, inebriations, inhospitable, inhospitably, interrobangs, jettisonable, labiodentals, lubrications, lucubrations, masturbation, nimbostratus, noctambulist, nonbotanists, nondiabetics, notabilities, obfuscations, objurgations, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, observations, obstetrician, postabortion, prelibations, probationers, publications, questionable, questionably, rambunctious, recombinants, reprobations, rubrications, sailboatings, sanctionable, somnambulist, speedboating, starboarding, strobilation, subauditions, subdominants, suberization, subjugations, sublimations, subluxations, subnormality, subordinated, subordinates, subordinator, subornations, subrogations, subtotalling, subtractions, thingamabobs, tobacconists, tobogganings, tobogganists, tribulations, urbanisation, urbanologist, vibraphonist.

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