bastionlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a bastion.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivebastionlike (comparative more bastionlike, superlative most bastionlike)

comparative more bastionlike · superlative most bastionlike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bastion.

    We pointed to the bastionlike range we had just come over, the thousands of feet we must climb again to reach the track: […]

    1964 August 29, Sheila Burnford, “Walking”, in The Atlantic
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    Even from his office in the bastionlike Municipal Building, 19 stories above the silently bustling city, the pressure to run pulls like aggravated gravity on the first-term 61-year-old Manhattan Borough President.

    1988 November 28, Michel Marriott, “To Run or Not to Run: Dinkins's Struggle”, in The New York Times

Origin

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APA

bastionlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bastionlike

MLA

“bastionlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bastionlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bastionlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bastionlike.

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