redoubt
Enclosed defensive position
A redoubt is a temporary fortification, typically a small enclosed defensive work without flanking defenses.
Military forces construct redoubts to hold positions during sieges or battles.
The word extends figuratively to any stronghold or bastion: The university remained a redoubt of liberal thinking.
A last redoubt is a final refuge when other positions have fallen.
Fortified defensive position
- strongholdFortified place of defense
- citadelFortified urban stronghold
- bulwarkDefensive fortification or safeguard
- rampartFortified defensive wall
fortress · fort · keep · bunker · garrison · blockhouse · earthwork · emplacement
Obstacle blocking a path
- palisadeFence of pointed stakes
- stockadeFence of sharpened stakes
- moatDefensive water ditch
- trenchLong narrow excavation
perimeter · berm · defensive · siege · guardhouse · cover · drawbridge · breastwork
bastion
Fortified defensive position
- strongholdFortified place of defense
- citadelFortified urban stronghold
- bulwarkDefensive fortification or safeguard
rampart · fortress · fort · keep · bunker · garrison · blockhouse · earthwork · emplacement · entrenchment
barricade
Obstacle blocking a path
trench · perimeter · berm · defensive · siege · guardhouse · cover · drawbridge · breastwork
sanctuary
Protected sacred space
- strongholdFortified place of defense
- havenShelter from danger
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
hideaway · bastion · bolt-hole · safehouse · fastness · shelter · harbor · asylum · last stand · holdout
- defensedefense, defending, protecting, protection, security
- defenseswall, walls, fence, gate, barrier
- fortificationsfort, fortress, fortresses, citadel, citadels
- fortressfortress, citadel, fort, stronghold, keep
- fortressesfortress, citadel, stronghold, fort, keep
- Fortsfortress, citadel, stronghold, Fort Knox, Fort Bragg
redoubtopen ground
no man's land · killing field · open field · weak point · breach
redoubtcastle
Fortified medieval residence
fortress · citadel · stone keep · keep · stronghold