FORTRESS meaning: Stronghold designed for protection, defense

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word fortress:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

fortress: Merriam-Webster
fortress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
fortress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
fortress: Collins English Dictionary
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Fortress, fortress: Wordnik
fortress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
fortress: Wiktionary
fortress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
fortress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
fortress: Infoplease Dictionary
Fortress, fortress: Dictionary.com
fortress: Online Etymology Dictionary
fortress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Fortress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
fortress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
fortress: Rhymezone
fortress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
fortress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
fortress: FreeDictionary.org
fortress: Mnemonic Dictionary
fortress: TheFreeDictionary.com
fortress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

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fortress: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

fortress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

fortress: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

fortress: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Fortress: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Fortress: Chess Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Fortress: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (chess) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard, to fortify.

Similar:

fort, stronghold, place, citadel, castle, strongpoint, bastion, tower, wall, Bastille, more...

Opposite:

shelter, hut, tent, cabin, shed

Types:

castle, citadel, bastion, keep, redoubt, stronghold, rampart, bulwark, more...

Phrases:

fortress monroe, Fortress Europe, Flying Fortress, Fortress of Louisbourg, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, more...

Adjectives:

strong, great, old, impregnable, important, ancient, natural, small, mighty, roman, medieval

Colors:

stone gray, iron black, granite gray, more...