Synonyms for FORTRESS
ˈfɔr trɪsfortress

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1. fortress

   The weak may speak or act in defense of the strong; none but the powerful can assure others of protection. A defense is ordinarily against actual attack; protection is against possible as well as actual dangers. We speak of defense against an assault, protection from the cold. Vindication is a triumphant defense of character and conduct against charges of error or wrong. Compare APOLOGY.

   Synonyms:
   apology, bulwark, defense, guard, justification, protection, rampart, resistance, safeguard, shelter, shield, vindication

   Antonyms:
   abandonment, betrayal, capitulation, desertion, flight, surrender

   Preposition:
   Defense against assault or assailants; in law, defense to an action, from the testimony.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 6 votes

1. fortress, fortnoun

   a fortified defensive structure

   Synonyms:
   fort, fortress, garrison

Matched Categories

1. • Defensive Structure

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1. fortressnoun

   Synonyms:
   fortification, fort, stronghold, castle, citadel, fortified place (of great magnitude)

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1. fortressnoun

   Synonyms:
   fort

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1. List of paraphrases for "fortress":

   fortaleza, strength, fort, fortitude, stronghold, bastion, bulwark

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1. Tyler Proctor:

   His house is like a fortress and it needs to be. I can see why [he] wants to move out.

2. Vladimir Putin:

   The collective West does not plan on backing off its policy of economic pressure on Fortress Russia.

3. Natalia Polukhina:

   It seems very strange to me to interpret this building as a water tank. In the same fortress of Naryn-Kala, there is an equal underground structure of 10 meters depth, and it really is a tank. This is just a rectangular building. The unusual building, in which we have put our detectors, has the shape of a cross, oriented strictly to the sides of the world, one side is 2 meters longer than the others, as the archaeologists who began excavations say, during construction, the building was entirely on the surface and it stands on the highest point of the Naryn-Kala. What is the sense to put the tank on the surface, and even on the highest mountain? It is strange. Currently, there are more questions than answers.

4. David Benjamin:

   Everybody in town here always had in the back of their mind that an escape could happen, but no one ever thought it would, that place is a fortress.

5. William Shakespeare:

   This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.