Noun:

படை அரண்,

fortress தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

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fortress's Usage Examples:

It sounded as if half a legion of armed Immortals was chasing someone through the fortress.

During the reign of Alexander, who was too poor to maintain any adequate standing army in Lithuania, the Muscovites and Tatars ravaged the whole country at will, and were prevented from conquering it altogether only by their inability to capture the chief fortresses.

For himself Bethlen secured the title of prince of the Empire, the seven counties of the Upper Theiss, and the fortresses of Tokaj, Munkacs and Ecsed.

To the last he loved to draw his illustrations of sacred things from camps and fortresses, from guns, drums, trumpets, flags of truce, and regiments arrayed each under its own banner.

The heads of the great military centres of the empire and the commandants of the royal fortresses are outside his jurisdiction: yet the satraps are entitled to a body of troops of their own, a privilege which they used to the full, especially in later periods.

The queen interposed to prevent the execution of those who had counselled the crucifixion of the rebels and permitted them to withdraw with her younger son Aristobulus to the fortresses outside Jerusalem.

, with fortress of Santa Cruz on one side and the fort of Sao Joao on the other, is about a mile wide and free from obstructions.

Deidre went obediently with her towards the fortress, numb and nauseous.

In the 15th century Alhama, and the neighbouring fortress of Loja, were generally regarded as the keys of the kingdom of Granada, and their capture went far to insure the overthrow of the Moorish power.

Between Salahiya and Deir, on an old canal, known in Arabic times as Said, leaving the Euphrates a little below Deir and rejoining it above Salahiya, stand the almost more picturesque ruins of the once important Arabic fortress of Rahba.

He stormed fortresses with thirty thousand men.

He gradually obtained full possession of Navarre and the Basque provinces, outside of the fortresses, which he had not the means to besiege.

Synonyms:

defense, defence, crenelation, alcazar, sconce, crenellation, presidio, defensive structure, martello tower, fort, battlement,

Antonyms:

offense, offence, question, prosecution,