Usually means: Military structure for defense, protection.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fort: Merriam-Webster
  2. Fort, fort, fort: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fort: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fort: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fort: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fort, Fort, Fort, for't, fort, fort, fort, fort: Wordnik
  7. fort: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fort, for't, fort: Wiktionary
  9. fort: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fort: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fort: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fort, fort, fort: Dictionary.com
  13. fort: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fort: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fort (Colombo), Fort (Mumbai precinct), Fort (area), Fort (band), Fort (disambiguation), Fort, The Fort (novel), The Fort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fort: Rhymezone
  19. Fort (nt), fort, fort(e), fort (het), fort (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fort: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fort: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. fort: FreeDictionary.org
  24. fort (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  25. fort: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. fort-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fort: Legal dictionary
  2. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fort: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fort: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. FORT: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. fort: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fort: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Fort, fort: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FORT: French-English Wine Glossary
  2. FORT (STRONG): French-English Wine Glossary

(Note: See forting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
noun:  Any permanent army post.
noun:  (historical) An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
noun:  A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
verb:  To create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A district of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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