Crossword clues for stronghold
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hold \Hold\ (h[=o]ld), n.
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The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; grip; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.
Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold.
--Chaucer.Thou should'st lay hold upon him.
--B. Jonson.My soul took hold on thee.
--Addison.Take fast hold of instruction.
--Pror. iv. 13. -
The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.
The law hath yet another hold on you.
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Binding power and influence.
Fear . . . by which God and his laws take the surest hold of.
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Something that may be grasped; means of support.
If a man be upon an high place without rails or good hold, he is ready to fall.
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A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.
They . . . put them in hold unto the next day.
--Acts. iv. 3.King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke.
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A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.
--Chaucer.New comers in an ancient hold
--Tennyson. (Mus.) A character [thus ?] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fortress 2 A place of refuge, survival or domination by a particular group or idea
WordNet
n. a strongly fortified defensive structure [syn: fastness]
Wikipedia
Stronghold is a historic real-time strategy (RTS) game developed by Firefly Studios in 2001. The game focuses primarily on conquest and expansion through military pursuits, but also provides space for economic strategy and development. There is both an economic and a military campaign to be played and both are discussed in the game manual. The game takes place in Medieval Britain around the time of AD 1066; however, since there is not always a time limit, scenarios can continue hundreds of years beyond that date.
As well as earning many favourable reviews from reviewers such as PCGamer and GameSpy (see Reception section), the game continues to boast a large community, who edit and create various material through the in-game Map Editor/Scenario Creator.
Because of its popularity, the game spawned five sequels: Stronghold: Crusader, Stronghold 2, Stronghold Legends, Stronghold 3 and Stronghold Crusader II.
Stronghold is a Dungeons & Dragons city-building real-time strategy computer game published by SSI and developed by Stormfront Studios in 1993.
A stronghold or fortification is a military construction or building designed for defense.
Stronghold may also refer to:
Stronghold is a book written by Melanie Rawn. It is the first book of the Dragon Star trilogy.
Stronghold is a live album by the British melodic rock band Magnum, released in 1997 by SPV. It is the UK re-release of The Last Dance, which originally was only distributed in Europe. This edition included bonus tracks.
Sanctuary Records released a remastered and expanded edition in 2007, along with Magnum's first six albums. The deluxe packaging has new sleeve notes and an exclusive interview with Tony Clarkin.
Stronghold is a 1951 American-Mexican historical film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Veronica Lake, Zachary Scott and Arturo de Córdova. A separate Spanish version Red Fury was also made.
Stronghold is the fourth full-length album by the Austrian black metal band Summoning. This album marked a change in the sound of Summoning as it was much more "guitar orientated with more compact keyboard-melodies". "Where Hope and Daylight Die" features Tania Borsky, Protector's ex-girlfriend and a former member of Die Verbannten Kinder Evas, on lead vocals. The album's cover was adapted from 'The Bard', an 1817 painting by John Martin.
This album is the first by Summoning to feature audio-clips; the clips used on this album were from the movies Braveheart and Legend.
Usage examples of "stronghold".
He had not anticipated that the Saddam Fedayeen would turn the town into a stronghold, and he had not known that the CIA had operatives in the city.
Jilreith and Barca can be hard to contact, as they both have strongholds along the Delta.
The crops of that Flaminia province had just been harvested at the time Odoacer retreated into his stronghold, so he certainly took in with him a bounteous stock of fresh provender.
From this rocky stronghold they had thrown out mobile bodies to harass the British advance from the south, and every day brought Buller into closer touch with these advance guards of the enemy.
There seemed the less objection to their doing so since this tract of country, though traversed once both by Buller and by French, had still remained a stronghold of the Boers and a storehouse of supplies.
Sick kings were not subject to excommunication, and the chronicle says that Henry was sick in his stronghold above the Vienne.
And sometimes in a kind of celebration I would make a heap of all my hammers, the Stronghold would be emptied, every nook and cranny would be outsearched for them and my weapons men would come carrying hammers to make that lovely mound of thousands of these in orange.
Darting and wheeling through curtains of pale phosphorescence, it was casting about in the bent spaces surrounding the stronghold.
This stronghold, situated on the northeast of the Platen Sea, was, like Caniza and Oberlympack, one of the Turkish advanced posts, by means of which they pushed forward their operations from Buda on the Danube.
Everywhere he razed the strongholds of presumptuous barons, but strengthened and rebuilt his own capital fortresses.
Her lady mother was dead too, murdered at the Twins, and Winterfell, the great Stark stronghold, had been sacked and burned, its people put to the sword.
New York in the best of health, and I have been at all times thinking of thee, and supplicating fervently at the threshold of the Blessed Beauty that He may guard thee in the stronghold of His protection.
CEE markets continue to dominate long-distance circuit-switched telephony, VoIP offers a unique opportunity for new operators to gain a foothold in this traditional monopolistic stronghold.
Now the father of a son almost two years old and a daughter born earlier in this year, Pompey had left Mucia Tertia at his stronghold in Picenum and issued firm orders that she was not to visit Rome in his absence.
As John prolonged his stay in Britain for months, many desired to know why the Duke of Normandy did not go with those transmarine forces, whose business it was, to the defense of his marches and his sorely beset castellans, instead of living softly with Isabella in strongholds safely remote from the catastrophe.