Stronghold

Quick meaning: Stronghold is a noun meaning A place built to withstand attack; a fortress.

Meaning

A place built to withstand attack; a fortress.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea.

Example Sentences

the last stronghold of the Cornish language

For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.

It's in this horse-opera mode that War For The Planet Of The Apes finds its most rewarding rhythms: in the parallels between Caesar's woodland stronghold and the archetypal frontier settlements of Western fiction; […]

Bridge End is the border station and the scene of many a sad parting between enterprising shoppers and their purchases—for it is a stronghold of the Customs !—and half an hour is allowed in the timetable for examination and shunting.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for stronghold

Depending on context, synonyms include bastion, bulwark, redoubt, fastness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fastness, redoubt, strongpoint, fort, fortress, bastion.

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