redoubt

[ri-dout]

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noun Fortification.

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

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

Origin of redoubt

1600–10; < French redoute < Italian ridotto < Late Latin reductus a refuge, noun use of past participle of Latin redūcere to lead back; see reduce

Redoubt

[ri-dout, ree-dout]

noun

Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).

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Related Words for redoubt

bastion, garrison, fortress, mainstay, rampart, barrier, citadel, fortification, bulwark, keep, fastness, castle, fort, presidio, camp, station, acropolis, blockhouse, stronghold, parapet

Examples from the Web for redoubt

Contemporary Examples of redoubt

He and the troops then retreated across New Jersey to a winter redoubt.
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Tom Shachtman
October 5, 2014
The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.
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May 12, 2014
Griffith was elected to a North Alabama district in 2008 that had long been a Democratic redoubt in the midst of a deep red sea.
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February 4, 2014
Or does it want to remain a redoubt for a shrinking minority of older whites?
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August 9, 2013
Even so, he will be calling many of the shots from his Middle East redoubt, a reality few dispute.
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July 4, 2011

Historical Examples of redoubt

The redoubt itself was at the apex of a broad angle of trenches.
With Manchesters in the East
Gerald B. Hurst
Meanwhile the British right center was held up by the redoubt.
The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII)
Various
Putnam showed him the redoubt, saying, "There you will be covered."
The Siege of Boston
Allen French
Howe disposed his forces in three columns, to attack the three faces of the redoubt.
The Siege of Boston
Allen French
For the men in the redoubt there were two more hours of waiting.
The Siege of Boston
Allen French

British Dictionary definitions for redoubt

redoubt

noun

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

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

Word Origin for redoubt

C17: via French from obsolete Italian ridotta, from Medieval Latin reductus shelter, from Latin redūcere to withdraw, from re- + dūcere to lead

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Word Origin and History for redoubt

also redout, "small, enclosed military work," c.1600, from French redoute (17c.), from Italian ridotto, earlier ridotta, "place of retreat," from Medieval Latin reductus "place of refuge, retreat," noun use of past participle of reducere "to lead or bring back" (see reduce). The -b- was added by influence of unrelated English redoubt (v.) "to dread, fear" (see redoubtable). As an adjective, Latin reductus meant "withdrawn, retired; remote, distant."