: a fortified place : stronghold
especially
: a large and permanent fortification sometimes including a town
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the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight
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From the field, those steep angles towering overhead are an easy reminder of how a rowdy home crowd can easily turn the place into a fortress.
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Kylie Volavongsa, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
The Bastille was a military fortress and prison that held gunpowder and other valuable supplies for the revolutionaries.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2024
One room upstairs in the sandy-colored stone fortress attempts to recreate the living conditions that Joyce experienced during his brief six-day stay here in 1904.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 27 June 2024
For the genre born in the 1980s, labyrinthine settings have long been Metroidvania’s defining feature, and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown delivers a doozy: a mountaintop fortress in which time has gone haywire.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 June 2024
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Kylie Volavongsa, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
The Bastille was a military fortress and prison that held gunpowder and other valuable supplies for the revolutionaries.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2024
One room upstairs in the sandy-colored stone fortress attempts to recreate the living conditions that Joyce experienced during his brief six-day stay here in 1904.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 27 June 2024
For the genre born in the 1980s, labyrinthine settings have long been Metroidvania’s defining feature, and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown delivers a doozy: a mountaintop fortress in which time has gone haywire.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 June 2024
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“Fortress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fortress. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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fortress
noun
for·tress
ˈfȯr-trəs 
: a fortified place
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