Fort

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  • noun. A fortified place or position stationed with troops.
  • noun. A permanent army post.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An abbreviation of fortification.
  • Strong.
  • Tipsy.
  • noun. A strong place of defense; a fortified building or inclosure; especially, an armed place for a garrison, provided with defensive works, for the protection of a town, harbor, frontier, or other point against the approach or passage of hostile forces.
  • noun. A trading-post among the North American Indians, whether fortified or not.
  • noun. Same as forte, 1.
  • To occupy a fort.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
  • noun. Any permanent army post
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense
  • noun. a fortified defensive structure
  • verb. enclose by or as if by a fortification
  • noun. a fortified military post where troops are stationed
  • verb. station (troops) in a fort
  • Word Usage
    "Olo means _fort_ and Senga a _parrot_, and hence the island was called Olosenga -- the fort or refuge of parrots."
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