Bulwark

Quick meaning: Bulwark is a noun meaning A defensive wall or rampart.

Meaning

A defensive wall or rampart.

More Meanings

1. A defense or safeguard.
2. A breakwater.
3. (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
4. (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
5. (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
6. (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.

Example Sentences

The party stalwarts constitute the bulwark that ensures the president's term of office.

Let thouſands die, their ſlaughtered Carkaſſes Shal ſerue for walles and bulwarkes to the reſt:

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence, […] the floating bulwark of the island.

Willing to upend the nation’s postwar role as a bulwark against authoritarianism, he promises to usher in a foreign policy rooted in “America First” transactionalism.

Word Forms

• bulwarks
• bulwarking
• bulwarked

Synonyms for bulwark

Depending on context, synonyms include rampart, jetty, groin, mole, wall, breakwater.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wall, rampart, seawall, jetty, breakwater, groyne.

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