forts
Defended military positions
Forts is the plural of fort—a fortified military installation designed to defend against attack.
Forts have walls, sometimes moats, and positions for weapons.
Children build forts from blankets or snow.
To hold down the fort is to maintain operations while others are away: I'll hold down the fort while you're on vacation.
Protective fortress walls
- garrisonStationed military force
- bastionsFortified defensive positions
- battlementsNotched defensive wall top
- stockadeFence of sharpened stakes
barracks · watchtower · parapet · moat · artillery · siege · defense · sentries
Fortified royal residences
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- colonialOf occupied territories
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
museum · archaeological · battlefields · monument · restoration · tourism · reenactment · artifacts
Remote commerce station
- Hudson BayLarge Canadian subarctic sea
- fur tradeCommercial exchange of animal skins
- commerceExchange of goods, services
- outpostRemote military station
frontier · settlement · merchants · trappers · barter · supplies · wilderness · expedition
Fabric bed coverings
- pillowsCushioned head supports
- cushionsSoft padded supports
- couchUpholstered seating furniture
- living roomHome's social space
sheets · cardboard · hideout · clubhouse · imagination · childhood · treehouse · construction
ramparts
Protective fortress walls
- garrisonStationed military force
- bastionsFortified defensive positions
- battlementsNotched defensive wall top
stockade · barracks · watchtower · parapet · moat · artillery · siege · defense · sentries · outpost
castles
Fortified royal residences
preservation · museum · archaeological · battlefields · monument · restoration · tourism · reenactment · artifacts · landmark
trading post
Remote commerce station
- Hudson BayLarge Canadian subarctic sea
- fur tradeCommercial exchange of animal skins
- commerceExchange of goods, services
outpost · frontier · settlement · merchants · trappers · barter · supplies · wilderness · expedition · pioneers
blankets
Fabric bed coverings
living room · sheets · cardboard · hideout · clubhouse · imagination · childhood · treehouse · construction · cozy
- childhoodchildhood, baby, child, kid, toys
- American frontierfrontier, westward expansion, pioneers, homesteading, homesteads
- defensedefense, defending, protecting, protection, security
- Westward ExpansionOregon Trail, Lewis and Clark, covered wagons, pioneers, frontier
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Military Sitesmilitary bases, fortresses, naval stations, air force bases, bunkers
fortsopen ground
open fields · open terrain · no man's land · bivouacs · battlefields
- hold the fortAssume temporary responsibility
- hold down the fortMaintain responsibility temporarily
- man the fortMaintain operations temporarily
- Fort BraggMajor Army installation, Carolina
- blanket fortImprovised fabric playhouse
- pillow fortCushion structure for play
fort, fortress, reinforce, fortify, fortified, reinforced, reinforcement, fortification, unfortified