Meaning of fortress in English
- Around the fortress are seven circular mounds, which at first suggest the idea of being the work of mound-builders.
- Have we destroyed the fleets of our enemies, fired their towns, and laid their fortresses in ruins?
- The fortress is separated from the town by a small bay, across which a wooden bridge has been built.
- The sultan immediately dispatched an army of two hundred thousand men to the relief of his beleaguered fortress.
- Yet at this moment the great fortress and arsenal lay at their mercy.
fortress | American Dictionary
Examples of fortress
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People are feeling insecure; they want their home to be a fortress.
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It can be used for a fortress of any architectural type.
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Unfortunately this is the only burial of its sort to be observed in a legionary fortress.
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At which time you will be billed for all costs incurred to the fortress during your stay in the cage.
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It is, therefore, an implicit fortress, and gives no hint whatsoever of the generous gardens within.
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This suggests that women within this fortress are most probably officers' families and tradespersons, although the ordinary soldiers' barracks have not been extensively excavated.
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This was passed with some enthusiasm after a conference discussion which at times seemed to be likening the new estates to socialist fortresses.
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I doubt whether ' fortress conservationists ' will be convinced by this volume, since narratives generally are not judged by their actual achievements.
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From the very beginning the body was considered a "fortress" constantly under attack by "the evil," by "bugs," and - inherited from premedical ages - by demons.
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The assumption was that the guerrillas would be trapped in their main fortress as the strike forces converged inward.
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At the far end, where the windows must have been, there were bass enclosures like fortresses on which midranges, trebles and supertrebles perched like turrets.
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He lamented that even this fortress was no longer safe from the epidemic.
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But at the same time those who settled employed architecture to build houses like fortresses.
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The unions are necessary as a defensive fortress for all workingmen.
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To this end, we are directed to the economic, administrative, and symbolic roles of the fortress within the rural context.
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