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  Redoubt

  noun

  Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3,108 meters).

redoubt

¹ American  

[ri-dout] / rɪˈdaʊt /

noun

1. Fortification.

   1. an isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point.

   2. an independent earthwork built within a permanent fortification to reinforce it.

2. any safe and secure place or situation; refuge; stronghold.

   Lebanon has represented one of the last redoubts of Christianity in the Middle East.

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Redoubt ² American  

[ri-dout, ree-dout] / rɪˈdaʊt, ˈri daʊt /

noun

1. Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3,108 meters).

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redoubt British  

/ rɪˈdaʊt /

noun

1. an outwork or detached fieldwork defending a pass, hilltop, etc

2. a temporary defence work built inside a fortification as a last defensive position

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Etymology

Origin of redoubt

First recorded in 1600–10; from French redoute, from Italian ridotto, from Late Latin reductus “a refuge,” noun use of past participle of Latin redūcere “to lead back”; see reduce

Explanation

A redoubt is a fort or retreat, like a temporary military shelter. Want to see a redoubt? Go to the US Military Academy at West Point where there are redoubts from the Revolutionary War. It’s also spelled "redout." Redoubts were often built around existing fortifications out of earth or stone to protect the most vulnerable soldiers outside the main area. Redoubt means "place of retreat," and a figurative redoubt might be the comfort you get from your group of friends or even your own certainty about the truth of your beliefs.

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But I live in fear of the moment when the conversation takes that dreaded turn toward the last redoubt of small talk: What do you do?

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

That battle resulted in SDF fighters leaving Aleppo, abandoning a small redoubt in one of Syria’s largest cities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Geneviève de Galard became a celebrated figure exactly 70 years ago when she was the only woman nurse tending French casualties inside the doomed redoubt of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam.

From BBC ● May 31, 2024

These days, his Beverly Hills redoubt is in disrepair, while an expired Russian passport and fear of possible arrest prevent him from traveling internationally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

He could continue to sleep in the birch, where, if not completely protected, he had the advantage of a high redoubt, the upper hand in case of a conflict.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Walsh, the Redoubt Realtor, said he was skeptical of any effort to push sectarian Christian theology on others in the region.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023

It was also shared on Twitter by Redoubt Antifascists, an anonymous group that calls out extremism in the region.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

Redoubt erupted, threatening Anchorage with an ash storm and forcing the delay or cancellation of commercial flights that passed over the area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2021

In 2013, several research groups studied GPS data from an eruption of the Redoubt volcano in Alaska four years earlier and found that the signals became distorted soon after the eruption began.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2019

He represents the Federal forces, their fire almost silenced, as being herded into the one Redoubt on the west, of which French’s troops occupied the ditch and were preparing for the final attack.

From The Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864 by Ludlow, William

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