Fortress

Quick meaning: Fortress is a noun meaning (chess) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.

Meaning

(chess) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify.
2. A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

Example Sentences

Honour and Beautie in the owners armes, / Are weaklie fortreſt from a world of harmes.

Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.

Word Forms

• fortresses
• fortressing
• fortressed

Synonyms for fortress

Depending on context, synonyms include bastion, bulwark, citadel, stronghold, fort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fort, citadel, bastion, stronghold, castle, bulwark.

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