bastionlike

English

Etymology

From bastion +‎ -like.

Adjective

bastionlike (comparative more bastionlike, superlative most bastionlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bastion.
    • 1964 August, Sheila Burnford, “Walking”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      We pointed to the bastionlike range we had just come over, the thousands of feet we must climb again to reach the track: […]
    • 1988 November 28, Michel Marriott, “To Run or Not to Run: Dinkins's Struggle”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      Even from his office in the bastionlike Municipal Building, 19 stories above the silently bustling city, the pressure to run pulls like aggravated gravity on the first-term 61-year-old Manhattan Borough President.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.