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”; reduce

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

Scott has helped me understand that they remain hideouts and redoubts where we can still hope to find practices of liberty today.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

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

Related Words

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