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US
/ˈbæstʃən/
]
[ UK /bˈæstiən/ ]
[ UK /bˈæstiən/ ]
NOUN
- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
-
a group that defends a principle
the last bastion of communism
a bastion against corruption
How To Use bastion In A Sentence
- Desperate to hold on to her beloved son, Yvonne turns to her sister Leonie (Eileen Arkins), the bastion of rationality in this "raggle-taggle gypsy" family. Unhappy In Their Own Way
- The last great bastion of French culinary purity has gone ethnic. Times, Sunday Times
- These clubs are the last bastions of male privilege.
- Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
- We already possessed Pera; the Golden Horn itself, the city, bastioned by the sea, and the ivy-mantled walls of the Greek emperors was all of Europe that the Mahometans could call theirs. The Last Man
- But in neither of those propositions does one find the "I" which, for Descartes, was the necessary bastion against hyperbolical doubt.
- 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.
- And is light entertainment the last bastion of male chauvinism? Times, Sunday Times
- Under the right conditions, the bastions of class were always quite easily breached. Times, Sunday Times
- This school seems more bastion of privilege than object of charity. Times, Sunday Times
