Fortress and Hold

Fortress

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

Usage example: the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight

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Hold and fortress are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hold" instead a noun "Fortress". rare substitute

Nearby Word: fort

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

Usage example: the ruins of an ancient Roman hold

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Fortress and hold are semantically related. You can use "Fortress" instead a noun "Hold".

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

old	old fortress	old hold
high	high fortress	high hold
full	full fortress	full hold
complete	complete fortress	complete hold
Other adjectives: solid, original, single, empty, small, entire, massive, large, big, huge, little, main, famous, mental, dwarf, last, giant, sealed, magical.

The British expected the fortress of Almeida in Portugal to hold out for at least a week.

Source: Useful Notes / The Napoleonic Wars
Bizarrchitecture: The Gotham Observatory is situated at the top of a giant fortress wall, with a statue holding up its hand... to hold the observatory.

Source: Film / Batman & Robin
In Dragon Age II, the Grey Wardens constructed a fortress in the Vinmark Mountains that serves as a prison for numerous demons, but mostly to hold Corypheus, one of the first darkspawn.

Source: Tailor-Made Prison

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