English Dictionary

bastion

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbæsti.ən/

名詞

比喩的用法

(architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification. / A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.

日本語の意味

投影された壁部や防御陣地の一部、すなわち城壁や砦から突出している部分 / 頑強に防御された拠点、要塞、砦としての意味

From the stone bastion, the sentry could see the valley and warn of any approaching enemy.

石造りの張り出した防塁から見張りは谷を見渡し、迫り来る敵を警告できた。

意味（1）

(architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.

[…] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.

意味（2）

A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.

意味（3）

(figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.

a bastion of hope

意味（4）

Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.

It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.

bastions （ plural ）