bastion

Other forms of bastion

plural

bastions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bastion

What does bastion mean?

bastion means "a group that defends a principle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bastion?

bastion has 2 syllables: bas-tion. The stress falls on "bas". In IPA it is /ˈbæstʃən/.

What is another word for bastion?

Close synonyms include citadel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bastion a common word?

bastion is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.