Meanings
fort1
nounfort (plural forts)
plural forts
- Any permanent army post.
Synonyms: air base, armory, arsenal, base, camp, headquarters, supply depot, watchtower
- historicalAn outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
- A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
The kids built a fort out of chairs and pillows.
Synonyms: den
verbfort (third-person singular simple present forts, present participle forting, simple past and past participle forted)
present singular third person forts · participle present forting · participle past forted · past forted
- To create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.
Synonyms: fort up
Fort2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
nounAny permanent army post.
nounA structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
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verbTo create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.
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More synonyms by meaning
verbgather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Frenchfort“strong”
- Middle Englishfort
- Englishfort
From Middle English fort, from Middle French fort (“strong”) (adjective use is from Old French). Doublet of fortis and forte.
More words from Middle English, Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek φρούριον, ὀχύρωμα
- φρούριον (phroúrion)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- ὀχύρωμα (okhúrōma)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Arabic قَلْعَة, حِصْن
- قَلْعَة (qalʕa)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- حِصْن (ḥiṣn)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Bengali কেল্লা
- কেল্লা (kella)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Bulgarian форт
- форт (fort)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Catalan fort
- fortfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Chinese Mandarin 要塞, 碉堡
- 要塞 (yàosài)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- 碉堡 (diāobǎo)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- 城堡 (chéngbǎo)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- 堡壘 /堡垒 (bǎolěi)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- 炮臺 /炮台 (pàotái)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Czech pevnost
- pevnostfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Danish fort
- fortfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Dutch fort, vesting
- fortfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- vestingfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Finnish linnake, linna
- linnakefortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- linnafortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- tukikohtaany permanent army post
- linnaimprovised structure for playing games
- majaimprovised structure for playing games
French fort
- fortfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
German Festung, Fort
- Festungfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- Fortfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- Stützpunktany permanent army post
Hindi क़िला, कोट
- क़िला (qilā)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- कोट (koṭ)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Hungarian erőd, erőd
- erődfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- erődany permanent army post
Icelandic virki, vígi
- virkifortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- vígifortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Indonesian benteng
- bentengfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Irish dún, daingean
- dúnfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- daingeanfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Italian forte, fortezza
- fortefortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- fortezzafortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- fortiliziofortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- fortinofortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- bicoccafortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- piazzafortefortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- ridottafortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Japanese 要塞
- 要塞 (yōsai)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Korean 요새
- 요새 (yosae)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Latin castrum
- castrumfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Latvian forts
- fortsfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Lithuanian fortas
- fortasfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Māori apaapatū
- apaapatūfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Norwegian Bokmål festning, fort
- festningfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- fortfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Persian دژ
- دژ (dež)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Polish fort, fort
- fortfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- fortany permanent army post
Portuguese forte
- fortefortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Russian форт
- форт (fort)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Scottish Gaelic daingneach
- daingneachfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Slovak pevnosť
- pevnosťfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Spanish fuerte, fortín
- fuertefortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- fortínfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Swedish fäste, fort
- fästefortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- fortfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Turkish kale, korugan
- kalefortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- koruganfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Ukrainian форт
- форт (fort)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Urdu قلعہ
- قلعہ (qila)fortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Vietnamese pháo đài
- pháo đàifortified defensive structure stationed with troops
Welsh amddiffynfa, caer
- amddiffynfafortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- caerfortified defensive structure stationed with troops
- caerany permanent army post
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with fort
supportreportcourtshortsortportsporttransportresortimportexportescorttortquartforteabortsnortwortmortortdistortconsortthwartretort
All rhymes →Sounds the same
forte (one pronunciation)fought (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)thought (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, th-fronting)forte (one pronunciation)fought (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)thought (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, th-fronting)
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
fort. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fort
MLA
“fort.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fort. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fort,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fort.
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