bastion
English edit
Etymology edit
First attested in 1562. From French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbæsti.ən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbæsti.ən/, /ˈbæst͡ʃən/
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Noun edit
bastion (plural bastions)
- (architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
- 1942, Emily Carr, “Beginnings”, in The Book of Small:
- […] 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.
- A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
- (figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
- a bastion of hope
- the bastion of democracy
- Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, canto XV, page 24:
- […] yonder cloud
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a labouring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:
- It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
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Verb edit
bastion (third-person singular simple present bastions, present participle bastioning, simple past and past participle bastioned)
- (transitive) To furnish with a bastion.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French bastion.
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Noun edit
bastion n (plural bastions, diminutive bastionnetje n)
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”) or Italian bastione. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term..
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bastion m (plural bastions)
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Further reading edit
- “bastion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Italian bastione, via French bastion.
Noun edit
bastion m (definite singular bastionen, indefinite plural bastioner, definite plural bastionene)
- a bastion (part of a fortification; also figurative)
References edit
- “bastion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Italian bastione, via French bastion.
Noun edit
bastion m (definite singular bastionen, indefinite plural bastionar, definite plural bastionane)
- a bastion (part of a fortification; also figurative)
References edit
- “bastion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French bastion, from Old French bastille.
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Noun edit
bastion m inan (diminutive bastionik)
- (military) bastion, stronghold (place built to withstand attack)
- (figuratively) bastion, stronghold (place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea)
- Synonym: szaniec
- (figuratively) bastion (person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bastion | bastiony |
genitive | bastionu | bastionów |
dative | bastionowi | bastionom |
accusative | bastion | bastiony |
instrumental | bastionem | bastionami |
locative | bastionie | bastionach |
vocative | bastionie | bastiony |
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bastion n (plural bastioane)
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bastion | bastionul | (niște) bastioane | bastioanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) bastion | bastionului | (unor) bastioane | bastioanelor |
vocative | bastionule | bastioanelor |
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bastion c
- bastion; a projecting part of a rampart
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bastion | bastionen | bastioner | bastionerna |
Genitive | bastions | bastionens | bastioners | bastionernas |