Definition of Fortresses

1. Noun. (plural of fortress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fortresses

1. fortress [v] - See also: fortress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortresses

fortition
fortitude
fortitudes
fortitudinous
fortlet
fortlets
fortlike
fortnight
fortnightlies
fortnightly
fortnights
fortravel
fortread
fortress
fortressed
fortresses
fortressing
fortresslike
forts
fortuit
fortuities
fortuitism
fortuitous
fortuitously
fortuitousness
fortuituous
fortuity
fortunate
fortunately
fortunateness

Literary usage of Fortresses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Edward Hertslet (1875)
"Yearly Inspection of Fortresses. 6. Special Inspection Commission for the Fortresses of Ulm, Rastadt, and Landau; and for the Fortress of ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The contingent of troops occupying these fortresses was to number, in time of peace, 35000 men, of whom three-fifths were to be furnished by Austria and ..."

3. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"Justinian also busied himself in building a continuous chain of fortresses along all the frontiers, as he had done in Africa. Rome had formerly been forced ..."

4. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1883)
"Thus the Christian fortresses were menaced on every point; and, while the lines of the besiegers cut off all communication on the land-side, ..."

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