Crossword-Solution: BASTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bastion | n. | A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin. |
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| BASTION | anagram | BONITAS, OBTAINS |
We have 31 clues for the answer “BASTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| stronghold defender | 1 answer |
| projecting part of a rampart or other fortification | 1 answer |
| projecting part of a fortification | 1 answer |
| institution of defence | 1 answer |
| a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | 1 answer |
| Strong defense. | 1 answer |
| Part of a fortification | 1 answer |
| INSTITUTION serving as defence (fig.) | 1 answer |
| A fortified area | 1 answer |
| Well-defended place | 3 answers |
| Fortified position | 3 answers |
| Military fortification | 4 answers |
| breastwork | 4 answers |
| Defensive structure | 7 answers |
| rock formation | 10 answers |
| Battlement | 10 answers |
| FORTIFIED place | 10 answers |
| BULWARK, THE AUTHOR | 10 answers |
| ditchside fortification | 10 answers |
| A GROUP THAT DEFENDS A PRINCIPLE | 11 answers |
| Parapet | 15 answers |
| citadel | 15 answers |
| Fortress | 16 answers |
| Stronghold | 17 answers |
| Palace | 25 answers |
| bulwark | 28 answers |
| Fort | 33 answers |
| Tower | 38 answers |
| Fortification | 56 answers |
| defence | 60 answers |
| strong point | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with BASTION (5)
Hard by, the Titan, he who bears the torch, Prometheus, has his worship; but the spot Thou treadest, the Brass-footed Threshold named, Is Athens’ bastion, and the neighboring lands Claim as their chief and patron yonder knight Colonus, and in common bear his name.
For a while, the newer laws of the seventies relating to affirmative action suggested that there would be a break in the male bastion.
Base, a., Bastion.] (Arch.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure.
Come, I believe I can show you the very smoke out of our chimney.’ So saying, she carried me round the battlements towards the opposite or southern side of the fortress, and indeed to a bastion almost immediately overlooking the place of our projected flight.
This was a large oblong, flanked at two opposite corners by bastion-like projections, one of which commanded the door, while both were loopholed for musketry.
Quotes with BASTION (3)
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let's call it, Smithcliff, a prestigious women's college. She is denied admission on the grounds thatthe dorms and classrooms can'taccommodate wheelchairs, that her speech pattern would interfere with her elocution lessons, and that her presence would upset the other students. Th…
A castle of defense, a bastion of might A fort where the wise teach the young to fight An armory of weapons, sharp as hooks Are wrapped in leather and shelved as books
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1963–2025).