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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.

Example Sentences

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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

The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025

At the installation — a cliff-side redoubt overlooking vast deforested areas and topped with a gigantic transmitter — Wenjie quickly learns the truth.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Raynar Northbrook perched atop the isolated redoubt, keeping his lone vigil by the river.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Rawles’s reach was magnified by outlets such as “Radio Free Redoubt,” a podcast geared toward “God-fearing, liberty-loving patriots,” and Redoubt News, an “online publication featuring the Christian conservative culture.”

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

Judging from the map, you would say that the Germans still clinging to the eastern edges of Fosse 8 and Hohenzollern Redoubt were now taken between two fires, and that nothing could save them.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by Parrott, James Edward

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