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fortification

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fortification has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

fortificationn. [L. fortificatio : cf. F. fortification.].
  •  The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.  [1913 Webster]
Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.
Syn. -- Fortress; citadel; bulwark. See Fortress.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fortification, n.
1 the act or an instance of fortifying; the process of being fortified.
2 Mil. a the art or science of fortifying. b (usu. in pl.) defensive works fortifying a position.

Etymology
ME f. F f. LL fortificatio -onis act of strengthening (as FORTIFY)

THESAURUS

fortification

abatis, advanced work, affirmation, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bearing out, bolstering, breastwork, bulwark, buttressing, case hardening, casemate, certification, cheval-de-frise, circumstantiation, circumvallation, confirmation, contravallation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, documentation, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, enrichment, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, glacis, hardening, invigoration, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, proof, proving, proving out, rampart, ratification, ravelin, redan, redoubt, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restoration, restrengthening, revivification, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, strengthening, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, tempering, tenaille, undergirding, validation, vallation, vallum, verification, vitaminization, work

ROGET THESAURUS

fortification

Defense

N defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.

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