different between bastioned vs bastion

English

Adjective

bastioned (not comparable)

1. Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
   • 1919, Achmed Abdullah, "Pro Patria" in Fear and Other Stories, Chapter IV, [1]

     As he walked stiffly aslant against the booming northern wind, he tried to marshal his thoughts, tried to dovetail for himself a picture of what had happened behind the grim, bastioned walls of the lamasery and of what was going to happen […]

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 5,

     To the North there were low pale-colored hills, in places bastioned with rock.

Verb

bastioned

1. simple past tense and past participle of bastion

Anagrams

• botanised, debations

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