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fortress

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fortress \For"tress\, n.; pl. Fortresses . [F. forteresse, OF. forteresce, fortelesce, LL. foralitia, fr. L. fortis strong. See Fort , and cf. Fortalice .] A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Old French forteresse , forterece "strong place, fortification" (12c.), variant of fortelesse , from Medieval Latin fortalitia , from Latin fortis "strong" (see fort ) + -itia , added to adjectives to form nouns of quality or condition. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. 2 (context chess English) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fortress is a computer game written by Mat Newman, developed by Amcon and released by Pace Software on cassette tape for the BBC Micro home computer in 1984. It was based on the SEGA game Zaxxon that had been released in arcades in 1982. The game play was ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE great ▪ Most domestic building was in wood and has perished, but some of the great mural fortresses survive. ▪ There's a great white fortress of a monastery crowning the top of the island. ▪ And shortly, in her ...

Usage examples of fortress.

It was here that we reached the outer boundaries of Akkadian rule, and bid farewell to our escort, who would remain, supplementing the garrison of an outlying Akkadian fortress.

Tower, though the church of Allhallows Barking hid part of the fortress from view.

Vo Astur and Vo Mimbre were fortresses, and they looked like fortresses, blocky and unlovely.

Lord Strange, lord of the Isle of Man, duke of Atholl, current owner of the last fortress within the British Isles to undergo a siege, Blair House.

In the meantime he detached a powerful armament to Italy, where they invested the Imperial fortress of Aula, the garrison of which was obliged to surrender themselves prisoners of war.

With the Americans falling back on Bataan, and the British retreating to Fortress Singapore, Pug could see little hope anywhere, except in the Russian counterattacks.

Four plunger switches closed, that tiny pilot ray became an enormous rod of force, and as those two gigantic beams met in exact opposition and neutralized each other a solid wall of blinding brilliance appeared in the empty ether behind the Vorkulian fortress.

There she was anchored by tractor beams, and the two hundred picked men of the I-P police, in full space equipment, prepared to board the gigantic fortress of the void.

And then the cold weather before long put an end to the little promenades of rime by the shore, and Gard had to try other lines of attack on this radiant and beflowered German fortress.

Once students and professors crowded the rooms and hallways of this fortress, studying modern irrigation and biotechnical crop engineering.

Commander Anne Blenheim was enjoying what was almost her first look around the vast interior of the ancient Templar Fortress that enclosed the Radiant itself, and of which she had very recently assumed command.

The groundcar easing its way toward Commander Blenheim through moderate traffic was of a type unremarkable on the streets of the Fortress, though it would have been conspicuous almost anywhere else.

THE MAIN HALL OF THE FORTRESS, Lancelot, Gawain, Galahad, Bors, Dagonet and Tristran stood behind chairs at the thick-plank circular table, waiting.

Wall fortress with Bors and later gave birth to a son she insisted was his, he chose to be philosophical and accept the child as his own.

Throughout the years, it remained a dazzling white fortress of taste and calm, with an elegant double bowfront, striped emerald lawns, pergolas and a maze, and garish red and blue flags fluttering brazenly between pyramids of hyacinths all along its battlements.