Usually means: Stronghold for defense or protection.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. bastion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bastion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bastion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bastion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bastion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bastion, bastion: Wordnik
  7. bastion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bastion: Wiktionary
  9. bastion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bastion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bastion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bastion, bastion: Dictionary.com
  13. bastion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bastion (Nanaimo), Bastion (Overwatch), Bastion (band), Bastion (comics), Bastion (disambiguation), Bastion (film), Bastion (naval), Bastion (video game), Bastion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bastion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bastion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bastion: Rhymezone
  18. Bastion, bastion (het), bastion (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bastion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. bastion: Free Dictionary
  21. bastion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. bastion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bastion: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BASTION: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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  1. bastion: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. bastion: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. Bastion: Castle Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bastion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bastion: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bastioned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
noun:  A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
noun:  (figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
noun:  Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with a bastion.

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