Synonyms for FORT
fɔrt, foʊrtfort

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1. fort

   Fortification is the general word for any artificial defensive work; a fortress is a fortification of especial size and strength; a fortress is regarded as permanent, and is ordinarily an independent work; a fort or fortification may be temporary; a fortification may be but part of a defensive system; we speak of the fortifications of a city. A citadel is a fortification within a city, or the fortified inner part of a city or fortress, within which a garrison may be placed to overawe the citizens, or to which the defenders may retire if the outer works are captured; the medieval castle was the fortified residence of a king or baron. Fort is the common military term for a detached fortified building or enclosure of moderate size occupied or designed to be occupied by troops. The fortifications of a modern city usually consist of a chain of forts. Any defensible place, whether made so by nature or by art, is a fastness or stronghold.

   Synonyms:
   castle, citadel, fastness, fortification, fortress, stronghold

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1. garrison, fortnoun

   a fortified military post where troops are stationed

   Synonyms:
   fort, fortress, garrison

2. fortress, fortverb

   a fortified defensive structure

   Synonyms:
   fort, fortress, garrison

3. fort, fort upverb

   gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense

   Synonyms:
   fort, fort up, fortify

4. fortify, fortverb

   enclose by or as if by a fortification

   Synonyms:
   fort up, fortify, gird, build up, fort, spike, arm, beef up, lace, strengthen

5. fortverb

   station (troops) in a fort

   Synonyms:
   fort up, fortify

Matched Categories

1. • Enclose
   • Military
   • Military Post
   • Station

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   "oater setting"

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1. fortnoun

   Synonyms:
   fortification, fortress, stronghold, bulwark, castle, citadel, fastness, fortified place

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1. fortnoun

   Synonyms:
   fortress, fortification, citadel, fastness, stronghold, bulwark, redoubt

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1. List of paraphrases for "fort":

   strong, loud, hard, fortress, very, high, highly, forte, quite, wurth, powerful

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1. FORT

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1. Singh Rajewal:

   Nobody had given a call to go to Red Fort, it all happened suddenly.

2. Said Wright:

   I’ve been taking care of my father with dementia and things just got a little tough, so I decided to set out on a kayak trip, packed up the kayak with my fishing rods, cooler, fishing net and set off from Fort Pierce.

3. Charlie Castillo:

   I don't see that happening here, but Fort Bliss has always been an open base.

4. Miguel de Cervantes:

   'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it.

5. Randy Howard:

   So if you look at the big picture here, thousands of jobs have already gone away as we close out the building of F-16s. That’s a given at this point; there’s nothing we can do to change this, so what our offer does is seek to mediate that. To remedy that. To bring back those jobs as much as possible. It adds jobs in India, but it also brings back jobs in Fort Worth and across the U.S.