defensive structure

1. 1.

   a structure used to defend against attack

   “the artillery battered down the defenses”

   Synonymsdefensedefence

   Broaderstructure

   Narrowercheval-de-frisefortificationfortressline of defenseoutworkstronghold

Questions about defensive structure

What does defensive structure mean?

defensive structure means "a structure used to defend against attack".

What is another word for defensive structure?

Close synonyms include defense, defence. 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 defensive structure a common word?

defensive structure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.