different between bastille vs bastion

English

Alternative forms

• bastile (obsolete)

Etymology

From French bastille, from Late Latin bastilia, plural of bastile, from bastire (“to build”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [bæ?st???], [bæ?sti??]

Noun

bastille (plural bastilles)

1. A castle tower, or fortified building; a small citadel or fortress.
2. A prison or jail.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, I.2:

     Thither arriv'd, th' advent'rous Knight / And bold Squire from their Steeds alight, / At th' outward Wall, near which there stands / A Bastile, built t' imprison Hands [...].

Translations

Verb

bastille (third-person singular simple present bastilles, present participle bastilling, simple past and past participle bastilled)

1. To confine as though in a bastille; to imprison.
   • 1796–7, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman, Oxford 2009, p. 137:

     Marriage had bastilled me for life.

Anagrams

• Balliets, bile salt, listable

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin bastilia, plural of bastile, from Medieval Latin bast?re (“to build, sew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.tij/
• Rhymes: -ij

Noun

bastille f (plural bastilles)

1. fortress

Further reading

• “bastille” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

First attested in 1562. From French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæsti.?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæsti.?n/, /?bæst??n/
• ,
• Homophone: Bastian

Noun

bastion (plural bastions)

1. (architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Beginnings," [1]

     […] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.

2. A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
3. (figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.

Related terms

• bastille
• bastioned

Translations

Verb

bastion (third-person singular simple present bastions, present participle bastioning, simple past and past participle bastioned)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a bastion.

Anagrams

• Bostian, obtains, stiboan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French bastion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?s.ti??n/
• Hyphenation: bas?ti?on
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

bastion n (plural bastions, diminutive bastionnetje n)

1. bastion; a projecting part of a rampart

   Synonym: bolwerk

French

Etymology

From Middle French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.tj??/

Noun

bastion m (plural bastions)

1. bastion
2. stronghold

Descendants

• ? Polish: bastion

Further reading

• “bastion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• snobait

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian bastione, via French bastion

Noun

bastion m (definite singular bastionen, indefinite plural bastioner, definite plural bastionene)

1. a bastion (part of a fortification; also figurative)

References

• “bastion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian bastione, via French bastion

Noun

bastion m (definite singular bastionen, indefinite plural bastionar, definite plural bastionane)

1. a bastion (part of a fortification; also figurative)

References

• “bastion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba.stj?n/

Noun

bastion m inan (diminutive bastionik)

1. (architecture) bastion, stronghold (place built to withstand attack)
2. (figuratively) stronghold (place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) bastionowy

Further reading

• bastion in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• bastion in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French bastion

Noun

bastion n (plural bastioane)

1. stronghold

Declension

Swedish

Noun

bastion c

1. bastion; a projecting part of a rampart

Declension