Fort

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fortified place or position stationed with troops.
  • n. A permanent army post.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
  • n. Any permanent army post
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Strong.
  • Tipsy.
  • n. A strong place of defense; a fortified building or inclosure; especially, an armed place for a garrison, provided with defensive works, for the protection of a town, harbor, frontier, or other point against the approach or passage of hostile forces.
  • n. A trading-post among the North American Indians, whether fortified or not.
  • n. Same as forte, 1.
  • To occupy a fort.
  • An abbreviation of fortification.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense
  • n. a fortified defensive structure
  • v. enclose by or as if by a fortification
  • n. a fortified military post where troops are stationed
  • v. station (troops) in a fort
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    assemble    foregather    gather    meet    forgather    post    send    station    place   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Court    Dort    Mort    Porte    Stuart    abort    assort    athwart    boart    bort   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fortress    castle    building    camp    village    garrison    settlement    island    hut    port