Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A projecting part of a fortification.
- noun A well-fortified position.
- noun One that upholds or defends something, as against neglect or unpopularity: synonym: bulwark.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification, a mass of earth, faced with sods, brick, or stones, standing out from a rampart, of which it is a principal part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) 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. Two adjacent
bastions are connected by thecurtain , which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called thegorge . Alunette is a detached bastion. Seeravelin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
projecting part of arampart or otherfortification - noun a well-
fortified position ; astronghold orcitadel - noun figuratively a person, or thing, who strongly
defends someprinciple
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- noun projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
- noun a group that defends a principle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He has decried what he characterized as a bastion of lobbyists for seeking special carve outs to limit the effect of proposed financial regulation.
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And, since this kind of writers are the main bastion of Portuguese SF/F production, it seems wrong to me to just dismiss them.
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Venevision, once a particularly notorious anti-Chavista bastion, is now known as the Disney Channel, for its increasing abundance of cartoons and bland newscasts.
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Happy birthday to the vivacious countess of joie de vivre, entitymel; the travelin 'bastion of darkness, bitterreign; and the torch-holder of modern Satanic burlesquery, the ever sexalicious szandora!
July 30th, 2006 entitymel 2006
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Venevision, once a particularly notorious anti-Chavista bastion, is now known as the Disney Channel, for its increasing abundance of cartoons and bland newscasts.
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Though we're not certain of the exact moment NPR was tagged a bastion of "liberal" media, this recent turn of events could lead into another conversation about what constitutes "liberal media" and what, for argument's sake, is "conservative media."
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Though we're not certain of the exact moment NPR was tagged a bastion of "liberal" media, this recent turn of events could lead into another conversation about what constitutes "liberal media" and what, for argument's sake, is "conservative media."
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Until then, Nagoya had been known as a bastion of support for the DPJ, whose voters have a mainly urban profile.
Osaka Voters Reject Status Quo Of Japan's Main Parties Mari Iwata 2011
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Though we're not certain of the exact moment NPR was tagged a bastion of "liberal" media, this recent turn of events could lead into another conversation about what constitutes "liberal media" and what, for argument's sake, is "conservative media."
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Though we're not certain of the exact moment NPR was tagged a bastion of "liberal" media, this recent turn of events could lead into another conversation about what constitutes "liberal media" and what, for argument's sake, is "conservative media."
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
chained_bear commented on the word bastion
An open projecting work at the corner of a fortification. Defensive projection from the main wall or fortress, either a platform or a small tower.
August 24, 2008
pikachu commented on the word bastion
Bam to behold, a public bulletin board, built of both brilliance and barbarity by bastards with boners. This bastion, no mere bulwark of boredom, is a brutal barrage of blistering bullshit, barely benevolent... but behind the bigotry and boobs, beyond the bitter broadcasts of bragging buffoons: here be the body politic. A brotherhood of blasphemy, blessed with more balls than brains, battling the bland, the bogus, the benign. Bedlam? Bring it on. But I babble... better to be brief.
You may call me /b/.
March 18, 2011
bilby commented on the word bastion
Some fourchan meme innit?
March 18, 2011