fort

Related topics: Military, Buildings

PMTBBa strong building or group of buildings used by soldiers or an army for defending an important place 堡垒，城堡

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Examples from the Corpus

fort• At their reasonably cozy fort, a bell signaled daily worship.• soldiers from Fort Bragg• The Civil War began when Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter.• McManus Galleries have extensive local history displays, including valuable material from Roman fort at Carpow.• The Roman bridge connects the Roman fort at Inveresk to the harbour.• Delight in the remarkably sophisticated ways of the Roman Centurion and Civilian who lived in Malton's fort and vicus.• The small band eventually finds the fort under siege.• Just the three of you going to be holding the fort tonight.• One team responsible for defence, the other had the hard task of storming the fort.• The first scenario was the fort.

Origin fort

(1400-1500) French Latin fortis “strong”

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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7202 COCA: 7497

fort

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + FORT | FORT + VERB | PREPOSITION

ADJECTIVE

➤hill山堡

➤border (especially NAmE) 邊境要塞

▸➤Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, etc.鐵器時代、羅馬、撒克遜等城堡

◇an Iron Age hill fort鐵器時代的山堡

➤snow (NAmE) 雪堡

VERB + FORT

➤attack攻擊要塞

▸➤hold守住堡壘

◇Government forces managed to hold the fort.政府軍守住了要塞。

➤build建造堡壘

FORT + VERB

➤fall堡壘被攻陷

◇The fort finally fell after a week of intense fighting.經過一週的激戰，堡壘最終被攻陷了。

PREPOSITION

➤at a/the fort, in a/the fort在城堡中

◇All was calm at the fort that night.那晚城堡內風平浪靜。

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7202 COCA: 7497

fort noun
⇨ castle

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7202 COCA: 7497

fort