Noun:

கோட்டையின் முன் தள்ளிக் கொண்டிருக்கும் முகப்புடைய பகுதி,

bastion's Usage Examples:

As I worked my way through my News bookmarks I came to Pravda, former bastion of the soviet Politburo.

The bridgehead was well protected by these flanking bastions, and for this reason it made an excellent point of departure for an attack.

"It is approached in a very circuitous way, either by a passage (Xaupn) leading from a side door in the main propylaeum or by another long passage which winds round the back cf the chief hall, and so leads by a long flight of steps, cut in the rock, to the little postern door in the semicircular bastion.

After bloodshed between the rival fur companies, and their union in 1821, Fort Garry was erected, as a trading post and settlers' depot, and with somewhat elaborate structure, with stone walls, bastions and portholes.

Rosa Parks is a great example of a bastion for desegregation.

A royal palace existed at Westminster at least as early as the reign of Canute, but the building spoken of by Fitzstephen as an "incomparable structure furnished with a breastwork and a bastion" is supposed to have been founded by Edward the Confessor and enlarged by William the Conqueror.

Without sharing Montalembert's antipathy to the bastioned trace, and his predilection for high masonry caponiers, he followed out the principle of retarding the development of the attack, and provided for the most active defence.

I hope to be a bastion of support for the homeless shelter.

The fitness center seems to be the final bastion in the area that stands up for a healthy lifestyle.

It is surrounded by medieval walls with towers and bastions, and has thirteen suburbs, one lying on an island in the river.

It is approached in a very circuitous way, either by a passage (Xaupn) leading from a side door in the main propylaeum or by another long passage which winds round the back cf the chief hall, and so leads by a long flight of steps, cut in the rock, to the little postern door in the semicircular bastion.

Trani has lost its old walls and bastions, but the 13th-century Gothic citadel is used as a prison.

bastion of capitalism, the United States.

Synonyms:

defense, defence, defence force, defense force,

Antonyms:

offense,