English-Thai Dictionary

bastion

N ปราการ หรือ ป้อม แหลม  stronghold citadel pra-kan-rue-pom-laem

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BASTION

n.bas'chun. A huge mass of earth, usually faced with 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.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BASTION

Bas "tion, n. Etym: [F. bastion (cf. It. bastione ), fr. LL. bastire to build (cf. F. b, It. bastire ), perh. from the idea of support for a weight, and akin to Gr. to lift, carry, and to E. baston, baton. ] (Fort. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

BASTIONED

BASTIONED Bas "tioned, a.

 

Defn: Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bastion

bas tion |ˈbasCHən ˈbæstiən | ▶noun 1 a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions. • a natural rock formation resembling such a fortification. 2 an institution, place, or person strongly defending or upholding particular principles, attitudes, or activities: the last bastion of male privilege. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, from Italian bastione, from bastire ‘build. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

bastion

bastion |ˈbastɪən | ▶noun 1 a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions. • a natural rock formation resembling a man-made bastion. 2 an institution, place, or person strongly maintaining particular principles, attitudes, or activities: cricket's last bastion of discrimination. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, from Italian bastione, from bastire ‘build ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

bastion

bastion noun 1 fortified with ditches and bastions: projection, outwork, breastwork, barbican; Architecture bartizan. 2 a bastion of respectability: stronghold, bulwark, defender, support, supporter, guard, protection, protector, defense, prop, mainstay.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

bastion

bastion noun 1 he had fortified the stronghold with ditches and bastions: rampart, bulwark, parapet, fortification, buttress, outwork, projection, breastwork, redoubt, barbican, stockade, palisade; rare bartizan. 2 the last bastion of male-only suffrage in Europe: stronghold, bulwark, defender, support, supporter, guard, protection, protector, defence, prop, mainstay.

 

Duden Dictionary

Bastion

Bas ti on Substantiv, feminin , die |Basti o n |die Bastion; Genitiv: der Bastion, Plural: die Bastionen französisch bastion < italienisch bastione, Vergrößerungsform von: bastia, Bastei Bastei die Stadt wurde von den Feinden bis zur letzten Bastion erobert | figurativ die Opposition versucht, verlorene Bastionen zurückzugewinnen

 

French Dictionary

bastion

bastion n. m. nom masculin 1 Ouvrage de fortification. 2 figuré Ce qui défend efficacement. : Cette région ontarienne est un bastion du fait français hors Québec. SYNONYME rempart .

 

Spanish Dictionary

bastión

bastión nombre masculino 1 Construcción de forma pentagonal que sobresale en el ángulo de unión entre dos lienzos o partes de muralla :pequeños núcleos urbanos quedan envueltos por fortificaciones poligonales con poderosos bastiones .SINÓNIMO baluarte, luneta .2 Construcción o recinto fortificado para resistir ataques enemigos .SINÓNIMO baluarte .3 Cosa, persona o lugar al que se le concede un carácter representativo de algo por su fortaleza o resistencia :el nuevo jugador fue un firme bastión en la línea de cobertura rojiblanca; la caída de los ministros de Interior y Defensa es tan solo un cambio cosmético del poder en el último bastión estalinista de Europa .

 

bastionado, -da

bastionado, -da adjetivo [fortificación ] Que está provisto de bastiones .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bastion

bas tion /bǽstʃ (ə )n |-tiən /名詞 C 1 ｟かたく 比喩的に ｠〖通例 a ～〗(思想 主義 活動などを固守する )砦 （とりで ）[牙城 （がじよう ）, 人, 本拠地 ](stronghold ).2 〘築城 〙稜堡 （りようほ ）〘要塞 （ようさい ）や城壁の五角形の突出部分 〙.