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Webster 1913 Edition

Bastion

Bas′tion

(băs′chŭn; 106)
,
Noun.
[F.
bastion
(cf. It.
bastione
), fr. LL.
bastire
to build (cf. F.
bâtir
, It.
bastire
), perh. from the idea of support for a weight, and akin to Gr.
βαστάζειν
to lift, carry, and to E.
baston
,
baton
.]
(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 the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See
Ravelin
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bastion

BAS'TION

,
Noun.
bas'chun. A huge mass of earth, usually faced with 56
sods, sometimes with brick, or stones, standing out from a rampart, of which it is a principal part; formerly called a bulwark. Bastions are solid or hollow. A flat bastion is made in the middle of the curtain, when it is too long to be defended by the bastions in its extremes. A cut bastion has its point cut off and instead of it a re-entering angle, or an angle inwards, with two points outward. A composed bastion has two sides of the interior polygon unequal, which makes the gorges unequal. A demibastion is composed of one face only, which makes the gorges unequal. A demibastion is composed of one face only, with one flank and a demigorge. A double bastion is one raised on the plane of another.

Definition 2024

Bastion

Bastion

See also: bastion and bastión

German

Noun

Bastion f ‎(genitive Bastion, plural Bastionen)

  1. bastion

bastion

bastion

See also: bastión and Bastion

English

Noun

bastion ‎(plural bastions)

  1. a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
    • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Beginnings,"
      […] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.
  2. a well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel
  3. (figuratively) a person, or thing, who strongly defends some principle

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Dutch

Noun

bastion n ‎(plural bastions, diminutive bastionnetje n)

  1. bastion; a projecting part of a rampart

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bas.tjɔ̃/

Noun

bastion m ‎(plural bastions)

  1. bastion
  2. stronghold

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian bastione, via French bastion

Noun

bastion m ‎(definite singular bastionen, indefinite plural bastioner, definite plural bastionene)

  1. a bastion (part of a fortification; also figurative)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian bastione, via French bastion

Noun

bastion m ‎(definite singular bastionen, indefinite plural bastionar, definite plural bastionane)

  1. a bastion (part of a fortification; also figurative)

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Swedish

Noun

bastion c

  1. bastion; a projecting part of a rampart

Declension

Inflection of bastion 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bastion bastionen bastioner bastionerna
Genitive bastions bastionens bastioners bastionernas

Etymology

A bastion (1)

First attested in 1562. From French bastion, from Old French bastille ‎(“fortress”).

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