: a fortified place : stronghold
especially
: a large and permanent fortification sometimes including a town
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Examples of fortress in a Sentence
the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight
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Consider our role in defending the very fortress that defends us all.
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Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
For generations, grapes were grown around the fortress.
—Alex Crevar, New York Times, 13 June 2024
The largest of them, cast in iron, flank the mountaintop fortress outside of the northern city of Cap-Haïtien in the rural town of Milot.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 June 2024
The fortress of Prizren, a city that was formerly the capital of the Serbian Empire.
—Naomi Tomky, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2024
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Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
For generations, grapes were grown around the fortress.
—Alex Crevar, New York Times, 13 June 2024
The largest of them, cast in iron, flank the mountaintop fortress outside of the northern city of Cap-Haïtien in the rural town of Milot.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 June 2024
The fortress of Prizren, a city that was formerly the capital of the Serbian Empire.
—Naomi Tomky, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2024
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“Fortress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fortress. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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fortress
noun
for·tress
ˈfȯr-trəs 
: a fortified place
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