Bastion
noun
A strong, secure place or position that is used to defend or protect something.
The school was seen as a bastion of traditional values.
Often appears as...
- last bastion
- bastion of hope
noun
Part of a large building or wall, sticking out from the main part, used in warfare to shoot or protect form enemy's fire.
The castle had several bastions to provide a better defense.
Often appears as...
- corner bastion
- circular bastion
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Technical
noun
A strong, secure place or position that is used to defend or protect something.
The school was seen as a bastion of traditional values.
Often appears as...
- last bastion
- bastion of hope
noun
Part of a large building or wall, sticking out from the main part, used in warfare to shoot or protect form enemy's fire.
The castle had several bastions to provide a better defense.
Often appears as...
- corner bastion
- circular bastion
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
When used metaphorically, 'bastion' implies strength, but also resistance to change.
He was considered a bastion of the old ways in his rapidly modernizing neighborhood.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Connotation
In many cultures, 'bastion' is associated with historical institutions or ideals thought to be inflexible.
This university is a bastion of classical education.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
Depending on the context, 'bastion' can have a positive spin (safety, security) or negative (rigidity).
The last bastion of resistance finally surrendered.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
When used metaphorically, 'bastion' implies strength, but also resistance to change.
He was considered a bastion of the old ways in his rapidly modernizing neighborhood.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Connotation
In many cultures, 'bastion' is associated with historical institutions or ideals thought to be inflexible.
This university is a bastion of classical education.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
Depending on the context, 'bastion' can have a positive spin (safety, security) or negative (rigidity).
The last bastion of resistance finally surrendered.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
When used metaphorically, 'bastion' implies strength, but also resistance to change.
He was considered a bastion of the old ways in his rapidly modernizing neighborhood.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Connotation
In many cultures, 'bastion' is associated with historical institutions or ideals thought to be inflexible.
This university is a bastion of classical education.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive or Negative
Depending on the context, 'bastion' can have a positive spin (safety, security) or negative (rigidity).
The last bastion of resistance finally surrendered.
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Saving Hawaii’s Birds...
The site is going to be vacant. You know, we feel like it's like walking into a ghost town. This place that was the core of the ʻAkikiki world, their castle, their bastion, where we always thought that they would do the best. You walk in and it's empty streets. It's really it's really sad and
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Why should you read...
in an effort to guide society towards enlightenment. Similarly ancient are the Mentats— human computers capable of processing incredible amounts of data. While the Mentats are bastions of logic and reason, their results are not mere calculations,
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When technology can read...
by giving them access to information about themselves, including this incredible new brain-decoding technology. But I worry. I worry that we will voluntarily or involuntarily give up our last bastion of freedom, our mental privacy.
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Discovering Homo Naledi:...
we had seen deliberate body disposal as sort of the last bastion of what identified us as human. When Jane Goodall wrote to Louis Leakey saying "I have seen a chimpanzee using tools." He said, prophetically
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Advocating for gender...
know it well I'm not proud of the fact that I know it well I too have participated in those grotesquely distorted male bastions it's the instinctive assumption of male
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Saving Hawaii’s Birds...
The site is going to be vacant. You know, we feel like it's like walking into a ghost town. This place that was the core of the ʻAkikiki world, their castle, their bastion, where we always thought that they would do the best. You walk in and it's empty streets. It's really it's really sad and
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Why should you read...
in an effort to guide society towards enlightenment. Similarly ancient are the Mentats— human computers capable of processing incredible amounts of data. While the Mentats are bastions of logic and reason, their results are not mere calculations,
Video examples
When technology can read...
by giving them access to information about themselves, including this incredible new brain-decoding technology. But I worry. I worry that we will voluntarily or involuntarily give up our last bastion of freedom, our mental privacy.
Video examples
Discovering Homo Naledi:...
we had seen deliberate body disposal as sort of the last bastion of what identified us as human. When Jane Goodall wrote to Louis Leakey saying "I have seen a chimpanzee using tools." He said, prophetically
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Advocating for gender...
know it well I'm not proud of the fact that I know it well I too have participated in those grotesquely distorted male bastions it's the instinctive assumption of male
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Alexandra Petri
American Journalist
Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.
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Laurie Simmons
American Artist
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.
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Leo Buscaglia
American Author
We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.
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Chris Harris
British Journalist
Porsche is the last bastion of cars for petrolheads. So when they start making electric cars, you realise the world really is changing.
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Roger Craig Smith
American Actor
The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.
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Tony Campolo
American Clergyman
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
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Max Boot
American Author
I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.
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Padmapriya Janakiraman
Indian Actress
Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.
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Lynn Nottage
American Playwright
The stage is the last bastion of segregation.
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Alexandra Petri
American Journalist
Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.
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Laurie Simmons
American Artist
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.
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Leo Buscaglia
American Author
We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.
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Chris Harris
British Journalist
Porsche is the last bastion of cars for petrolheads. So when they start making electric cars, you realise the world really is changing.
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Roger Craig Smith
American Actor
The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.
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Tony Campolo
American Clergyman
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
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Max Boot
American Author
I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.
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Padmapriya Janakiraman
Indian Actress
Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.
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Lynn Nottage
American Playwright
The stage is the last bastion of segregation.
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