Definition of bastion in English:

bastion

nounˈbastɪən

1A projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions.
棱堡
Example sentencesExamples
- Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones.
- It was the period immediately after the siege that established the existing defence systems of Gibraltar with all its great bastions, casements and massive lines of artillery-proof walls built from clean dressed limestone.
- Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
- The riverside walls are punctuated nevertheless by defensive bastions of which the main one controls an access from the river and numerous underground passages.
- Fortresses of this era employed cleverly designed bastions and walls to defy storming by enemy troops and survive bombardment by enemy cannon.
- A wall was built of mud brick on a limestone foundation, punctuated by projecting bastions to allow cross-firing against anyone attacking the wall.
- A large area was enclosed by a defensive wall with bastions and monumental gates, and the natural sheltered harbour was extended and deepened.
- Today, parts of the massive, four-sided walls are still visible, together with the remains of its fortified towers, or bastions, at each of the four corners.
- The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running bastion enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material.
- Features common to them all include doubled walls and angular bastions for artillery to dominate the approach.
- Now, the slave-built massive concrete bastions have softened and decayed under the influence of time, weather and vegetation.
- The villa's distinctive pentagonal shape framed by arrowhead bastions makes it one of the most memorable monuments of the late Roman Renaissance.
- At close intervals are semi-circular bastions with eyelets for archers to look down and shoot at the enemy.
- The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side.
- On the Trikuta hill above the main city square, rise the bastions of the 12 th-century fort.
- The first baron had laid out an extended perimeter of earthen ramparts with angled bastions to let archers sweep the wall between them, and a deep ditch had been dug at the foot of the wall.
- Drunk participants are asked to make their way to the bastions on the city walls to assemble for the Carnival which gets underway at 2.00 pm.
- The walled cities of medieval Italy were fixed universes, bastions of defense, outlets for commerce, which had been built out of fear.
- The three successive walls with numerous bastions for artillery and convoluted approaches for better defense testify to a time when wars were common and imminent attack around the corner.
- The magnificent Junagarh Fort, the main attraction of the place has a 986-meter long wall with 37 bastions, a moat and two entrances.
Synonyms
rampart, bulwark, parapet, fortification, buttress, outwork, projection, breastwork, redoubt, barbican, stockade, palisade
rare bartizan
1. 1.1 A natural rock formation resembling a man-made bastion.
  棱堡状岩石
  Example sentencesExamples
  Reinforcements were pouring out of the narrow opening in the natural rock bastion.
  The mountain of Jebel Bishri forms a strategically important natural bastion on the Middle Euphrates in Syria.
  The day after we will start to open our new route on the rock bastion
  Yesterday, the four climbers fixed 400 meters of ropes along the rocky section above C4, until they were stopped by a rock bastion (wall) at about 8300m.
  He gave orders to improve defensive positions, such as the natural bastion of Santon Hill on his left.
2An institution, place, or person strongly maintaining particular principles, attitudes, or activities.
〈喻〉堡垒；坚定分子
cricket's last bastion of discrimination
歧视板球的最后堡垒。
Example sentencesExamples
- We are, after all, the last bastion of civilisation, are we not?
- Such bastions of tradition have established massive diversity bureaucracies, whose sole purpose is to create race-consciousness in their students.
- Parliament will always be the last bastion of this multilingual exercise.
- In modern societies, the media - for all their faults - are often the last bastion of liberty.
- Orcas may be nothing more than a display of how corporate interests are threatening even public art - the last bastion of an independent civic identity and urban artistic community.
- As more women join the male-dominated bastion of the police service, one top female cop launches a scheme to combat sexism and strengthen female representation in the PSNI.
- In Norway it was announced that women compose only 11% of members of corporate boards of directors, those bastions of male power and privilege.
- As well as the free exhibit there are lectures, Sunday concerts and weekly film screenings at the bastion of German cinema, the Goethe-Institut.
- For some time now, firefighters have been portrayed as the last bastion of unquestioned heroism in the public psyche.
- Independent documentary-making is the last bastion of free speech that we have’.
- In this chaos the last bastion of defence of a society is the judiciary.
- The last bastion of domestic drudgery is about to fall thanks to the development of the world's first automatic ironing machine.
- ‘You know I believe this attitude towards heavy people is the last bastion of open discrimination in our society,’ Andante quoted her as saying.
- As Havergal told this newspaper in 1999, ‘I feel we are the last bastion of socialist values.’
- Journalists are, if you like, the last bastion of democracy and freedom.
- Neocon thought, of course, views Israel as a crucial bastion of the defense of Western values.
- Asia's lions are protected in Gir, the last bastion of the species.
- A jury is a bastion of commonsense against the establishment - that's why they don't like it.
- The public sector has become the last bastion of comfortable retirement in Britain.
- The school was established by the Catholic Church hierarchy as a bastion of conservatism against the growing influence of liberalism and Protestantism in the region.
Synonyms
stronghold, bulwark, defender, support, supporter, guard, protection, protector, defence, prop, mainstay

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, from Italian bastione, from bastire 'build'.

Rhymes

Erastian, Sebastian

Definition of bastion in US English:

bastion

noun

1A projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions.
棱堡
Example sentencesExamples
- The magnificent Junagarh Fort, the main attraction of the place has a 986-meter long wall with 37 bastions, a moat and two entrances.
- Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
- Features common to them all include doubled walls and angular bastions for artillery to dominate the approach.
- Today, parts of the massive, four-sided walls are still visible, together with the remains of its fortified towers, or bastions, at each of the four corners.
- The walled cities of medieval Italy were fixed universes, bastions of defense, outlets for commerce, which had been built out of fear.
- The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side.
- It was the period immediately after the siege that established the existing defence systems of Gibraltar with all its great bastions, casements and massive lines of artillery-proof walls built from clean dressed limestone.
- Drunk participants are asked to make their way to the bastions on the city walls to assemble for the Carnival which gets underway at 2.00 pm.
- Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones.
- A wall was built of mud brick on a limestone foundation, punctuated by projecting bastions to allow cross-firing against anyone attacking the wall.
- At close intervals are semi-circular bastions with eyelets for archers to look down and shoot at the enemy.
- The villa's distinctive pentagonal shape framed by arrowhead bastions makes it one of the most memorable monuments of the late Roman Renaissance.
- Fortresses of this era employed cleverly designed bastions and walls to defy storming by enemy troops and survive bombardment by enemy cannon.
- The riverside walls are punctuated nevertheless by defensive bastions of which the main one controls an access from the river and numerous underground passages.
- The three successive walls with numerous bastions for artillery and convoluted approaches for better defense testify to a time when wars were common and imminent attack around the corner.
- A large area was enclosed by a defensive wall with bastions and monumental gates, and the natural sheltered harbour was extended and deepened.
- The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running bastion enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material.
- On the Trikuta hill above the main city square, rise the bastions of the 12 th-century fort.
- The first baron had laid out an extended perimeter of earthen ramparts with angled bastions to let archers sweep the wall between them, and a deep ditch had been dug at the foot of the wall.
- Now, the slave-built massive concrete bastions have softened and decayed under the influence of time, weather and vegetation.
Synonyms
rampart, bulwark, parapet, fortification, buttress, outwork, projection, breastwork, redoubt, barbican, stockade, palisade
1. 1.1 A natural rock formation resembling a bastion.
  棱堡状岩石
  Example sentencesExamples
  The day after we will start to open our new route on the rock bastion
  The mountain of Jebel Bishri forms a strategically important natural bastion on the Middle Euphrates in Syria.
  He gave orders to improve defensive positions, such as the natural bastion of Santon Hill on his left.
  Reinforcements were pouring out of the narrow opening in the natural rock bastion.
  Yesterday, the four climbers fixed 400 meters of ropes along the rocky section above C4, until they were stopped by a rock bastion (wall) at about 8300m.
2An institution, place, or person strongly defending or upholding particular principles, attitudes, or activities.
〈喻〉堡垒；坚定分子
the last bastion of male privilege
Example sentencesExamples
- A jury is a bastion of commonsense against the establishment - that's why they don't like it.
- We are, after all, the last bastion of civilisation, are we not?
- Journalists are, if you like, the last bastion of democracy and freedom.
- In this chaos the last bastion of defence of a society is the judiciary.
- Such bastions of tradition have established massive diversity bureaucracies, whose sole purpose is to create race-consciousness in their students.
- The public sector has become the last bastion of comfortable retirement in Britain.
- As more women join the male-dominated bastion of the police service, one top female cop launches a scheme to combat sexism and strengthen female representation in the PSNI.
- For some time now, firefighters have been portrayed as the last bastion of unquestioned heroism in the public psyche.
- Asia's lions are protected in Gir, the last bastion of the species.
- In Norway it was announced that women compose only 11% of members of corporate boards of directors, those bastions of male power and privilege.
- Independent documentary-making is the last bastion of free speech that we have’.
- Orcas may be nothing more than a display of how corporate interests are threatening even public art - the last bastion of an independent civic identity and urban artistic community.
- Neocon thought, of course, views Israel as a crucial bastion of the defense of Western values.
- ‘You know I believe this attitude towards heavy people is the last bastion of open discrimination in our society,’ Andante quoted her as saying.
- As Havergal told this newspaper in 1999, ‘I feel we are the last bastion of socialist values.’
- In modern societies, the media - for all their faults - are often the last bastion of liberty.
- Parliament will always be the last bastion of this multilingual exercise.
- The school was established by the Catholic Church hierarchy as a bastion of conservatism against the growing influence of liberalism and Protestantism in the region.
- The last bastion of domestic drudgery is about to fall thanks to the development of the world's first automatic ironing machine.
- As well as the free exhibit there are lectures, Sunday concerts and weekly film screenings at the bastion of German cinema, the Goethe-Institut.
Synonyms
stronghold, bulwark, defender, support, supporter, guard, protection, protector, defence, prop, mainstay

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, from Italian bastione, from bastire ‘build’.

词汇	bastion
释义	Definition of bastion in English: bastion nounˈbastɪən 1A projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions. 棱堡 Example sentencesExamples Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. It was the period immediately after the siege that established the existing defence systems of Gibraltar with all its great bastions, casements and massive lines of artillery-proof walls built from clean dressed limestone. Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved. The riverside walls are punctuated nevertheless by defensive bastions of which the main one controls an access from the river and numerous underground passages. Fortresses of this era employed cleverly designed bastions and walls to defy storming by enemy troops and survive bombardment by enemy cannon. A wall was built of mud brick on a limestone foundation, punctuated by projecting bastions to allow cross-firing against anyone attacking the wall. A large area was enclosed by a defensive wall with bastions and monumental gates, and the natural sheltered harbour was extended and deepened. Today, parts of the massive, four-sided walls are still visible, together with the remains of its fortified towers, or bastions, at each of the four corners. The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running bastion enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material. Features common to them all include doubled walls and angular bastions for artillery to dominate the approach. Now, the slave-built massive concrete bastions have softened and decayed under the influence of time, weather and vegetation. The villa's distinctive pentagonal shape framed by arrowhead bastions makes it one of the most memorable monuments of the late Roman Renaissance. At close intervals are semi-circular bastions with eyelets for archers to look down and shoot at the enemy. The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side. On the Trikuta hill above the main city square, rise the bastions of the 12 th-century fort. The first baron had laid out an extended perimeter of earthen ramparts with angled bastions to let archers sweep the wall between them, and a deep ditch had been dug at the foot of the wall. Drunk participants are asked to make their way to the bastions on the city walls to assemble for the Carnival which gets underway at 2.00 pm. The walled cities of medieval Italy were fixed universes, bastions of defense, outlets for commerce, which had been built out of fear. The three successive walls with numerous bastions for artillery and convoluted approaches for better defense testify to a time when wars were common and imminent attack around the corner. The magnificent Junagarh Fort, the main attraction of the place has a 986-meter long wall with 37 bastions, a moat and two entrances. Synonyms rampart, bulwark, parapet, fortification, buttress, outwork, projection, breastwork, redoubt, barbican, stockade, palisade rare bartizan 1.1 A natural rock formation resembling a man-made bastion. 棱堡状岩石 Example sentencesExamples Reinforcements were pouring out of the narrow opening in the natural rock bastion. The mountain of Jebel Bishri forms a strategically important natural bastion on the Middle Euphrates in Syria. The day after we will start to open our new route on the rock bastion Yesterday, the four climbers fixed 400 meters of ropes along the rocky section above C4, until they were stopped by a rock bastion (wall) at about 8300m. He gave orders to improve defensive positions, such as the natural bastion of Santon Hill on his left. 2An institution, place, or person strongly maintaining particular principles, attitudes, or activities. 〈喻〉堡垒；坚定分子 cricket's last bastion of discrimination 歧视板球的最后堡垒。 Example sentencesExamples We are, after all, the last bastion of civilisation, are we not? Such bastions of tradition have established massive diversity bureaucracies, whose sole purpose is to create race-consciousness in their students. Parliament will always be the last bastion of this multilingual exercise. In modern societies, the media - for all their faults - are often the last bastion of liberty. Orcas may be nothing more than a display of how corporate interests are threatening even public art - the last bastion of an independent civic identity and urban artistic community. As more women join the male-dominated bastion of the police service, one top female cop launches a scheme to combat sexism and strengthen female representation in the PSNI. In Norway it was announced that women compose only 11% of members of corporate boards of directors, those bastions of male power and privilege. As well as the free exhibit there are lectures, Sunday concerts and weekly film screenings at the bastion of German cinema, the Goethe-Institut. For some time now, firefighters have been portrayed as the last bastion of unquestioned heroism in the public psyche. Independent documentary-making is the last bastion of free speech that we have’. In this chaos the last bastion of defence of a society is the judiciary. The last bastion of domestic drudgery is about to fall thanks to the development of the world's first automatic ironing machine. ‘You know I believe this attitude towards heavy people is the last bastion of open discrimination in our society,’ Andante quoted her as saying. As Havergal told this newspaper in 1999, ‘I feel we are the last bastion of socialist values.’ Journalists are, if you like, the last bastion of democracy and freedom. Neocon thought, of course, views Israel as a crucial bastion of the defense of Western values. Asia's lions are protected in Gir, the last bastion of the species. A jury is a bastion of commonsense against the establishment - that's why they don't like it. The public sector has become the last bastion of comfortable retirement in Britain. The school was established by the Catholic Church hierarchy as a bastion of conservatism against the growing influence of liberalism and Protestantism in the region. Synonyms stronghold, bulwark, defender, support, supporter, guard, protection, protector, defence, prop, mainstay Origin Mid 16th century: from French, from Italian bastione, from bastire 'build'. Rhymes Erastian, Sebastian Definition of bastion in US English: bastion noun 1A projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions. 棱堡 Example sentencesExamples The magnificent Junagarh Fort, the main attraction of the place has a 986-meter long wall with 37 bastions, a moat and two entrances. Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved. Features common to them all include doubled walls and angular bastions for artillery to dominate the approach. Today, parts of the massive, four-sided walls are still visible, together with the remains of its fortified towers, or bastions, at each of the four corners. The walled cities of medieval Italy were fixed universes, bastions of defense, outlets for commerce, which had been built out of fear. The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side. It was the period immediately after the siege that established the existing defence systems of Gibraltar with all its great bastions, casements and massive lines of artillery-proof walls built from clean dressed limestone. Drunk participants are asked to make their way to the bastions on the city walls to assemble for the Carnival which gets underway at 2.00 pm. Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. A wall was built of mud brick on a limestone foundation, punctuated by projecting bastions to allow cross-firing against anyone attacking the wall. At close intervals are semi-circular bastions with eyelets for archers to look down and shoot at the enemy. The villa's distinctive pentagonal shape framed by arrowhead bastions makes it one of the most memorable monuments of the late Roman Renaissance. Fortresses of this era employed cleverly designed bastions and walls to defy storming by enemy troops and survive bombardment by enemy cannon. The riverside walls are punctuated nevertheless by defensive bastions of which the main one controls an access from the river and numerous underground passages. The three successive walls with numerous bastions for artillery and convoluted approaches for better defense testify to a time when wars were common and imminent attack around the corner. A large area was enclosed by a defensive wall with bastions and monumental gates, and the natural sheltered harbour was extended and deepened. The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running bastion enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material. On the Trikuta hill above the main city square, rise the bastions of the 12 th-century fort. The first baron had laid out an extended perimeter of earthen ramparts with angled bastions to let archers sweep the wall between them, and a deep ditch had been dug at the foot of the wall. Now, the slave-built massive concrete bastions have softened and decayed under the influence of time, weather and vegetation. Synonyms rampart, bulwark, parapet, fortification, buttress, outwork, projection, breastwork, redoubt, barbican, stockade, palisade 1.1 A natural rock formation resembling a bastion. 棱堡状岩石 Example sentencesExamples The day after we will start to open our new route on the rock bastion The mountain of Jebel Bishri forms a strategically important natural bastion on the Middle Euphrates in Syria. He gave orders to improve defensive positions, such as the natural bastion of Santon Hill on his left. Reinforcements were pouring out of the narrow opening in the natural rock bastion. Yesterday, the four climbers fixed 400 meters of ropes along the rocky section above C4, until they were stopped by a rock bastion (wall) at about 8300m. 2An institution, place, or person strongly defending or upholding particular principles, attitudes, or activities. 〈喻〉堡垒；坚定分子 the last bastion of male privilege Example sentencesExamples A jury is a bastion of commonsense against the establishment - that's why they don't like it. We are, after all, the last bastion of civilisation, are we not? Journalists are, if you like, the last bastion of democracy and freedom. In this chaos the last bastion of defence of a society is the judiciary. Such bastions of tradition have established massive diversity bureaucracies, whose sole purpose is to create race-consciousness in their students. The public sector has become the last bastion of comfortable retirement in Britain. As more women join the male-dominated bastion of the police service, one top female cop launches a scheme to combat sexism and strengthen female representation in the PSNI. For some time now, firefighters have been portrayed as the last bastion of unquestioned heroism in the public psyche. Asia's lions are protected in Gir, the last bastion of the species. In Norway it was announced that women compose only 11% of members of corporate boards of directors, those bastions of male power and privilege. Independent documentary-making is the last bastion of free speech that we have’. Orcas may be nothing more than a display of how corporate interests are threatening even public art - the last bastion of an independent civic identity and urban artistic community. Neocon thought, of course, views Israel as a crucial bastion of the defense of Western values. ‘You know I believe this attitude towards heavy people is the last bastion of open discrimination in our society,’ Andante quoted her as saying. As Havergal told this newspaper in 1999, ‘I feel we are the last bastion of socialist values.’ In modern societies, the media - for all their faults - are often the last bastion of liberty. Parliament will always be the last bastion of this multilingual exercise. The school was established by the Catholic Church hierarchy as a bastion of conservatism against the growing influence of liberalism and Protestantism in the region. The last bastion of domestic drudgery is about to fall thanks to the development of the world's first automatic ironing machine. As well as the free exhibit there are lectures, Sunday concerts and weekly film screenings at the bastion of German cinema, the Goethe-Institut. Synonyms stronghold, bulwark, defender, support, supporter, guard, protection, protector, defence, prop, mainstay Origin Mid 16th century: from French, from Italian bastione, from bastire ‘build’.
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