Barracks and Fortress

Barracks

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Fortress and barracks are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fortress" instead a noun "Barracks".

Fortress noun - A structure or place from which one can resist attack.

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Barracks and fortress are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Barracks" instead a noun "Fortress".

Nearby Word: fort

full	full barracks	full fortress
complete	complete barracks	complete fortress
regular	regular barracks	regular fortress
small	small barracks	small fortress
Other adjectives: entire, new, mobile, ruined, military, royal, nearby, roman.

Also played straight in the early game; a ridiculously large and ornate combination lock in a fortress is too inconvenient to brute force, having 100 combinations, but you can just head down to the barracks and learn it from a note a forgetful soldier wrote for himself.

Source: Video Game / Chrono Cross
Dwarf Fortress can have it's eponymous fortresses lain out however you like; there's nothing wrong with having the barracks and apartment complex sprinkled with random tombs and burial chambers.

Source: Bizarrchitecture
After taking the step from "overzealous faction leader" to "raving madman", Garrosh Hellscream commissioned a massive underground fortress, complete with barracks, laboratory, factory, beast pens, treasure vault, and ginormous throne room, built underneath the orcish capital of Orgrimmar.

Source: Elaborate Underground Base

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