A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
1) An enclosed place or fortified building for military defense, usually equipped with earthworks, guns, a garrison of troops, permanent buildings, etc.: 2) A permanent Army post, as distinguished from a temporary training camp.
A work, garrisoned by troops, established for the defense of a land or maritime frontier, the approach to a town, a harbour, a pass or a river. A fort is generally an enclosed place with walls, stockades, bastions, blockhouses, palisades and outworks, or any combination thereof. In France, Marshal Sebastian le Preste de Vauban (1638-1707), and in Holland, Baron Menno van Coehoorn (1641-1704) established some basic principles for the building (and taking) of forts.
a fortified military post where troops are stationed
a fortified defensive structure
gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense
enclose by or as if by a fortification
station (troops) in a fort
a space, usually circular, surrounded by a bank and fosse (or ditch)
A trading post, so called because the many early posts were fortified by palisade walls and bastions. Houses, trading areas, workshops and storage buildings were all surrounded by a palisade. When Fort Victoria was first built it was surrounded by a palisade but by the 1890s that had disappeared.
a work established for the defense of a land or maritime frontier, of an approach to a town, or of a pass or river. Although the term originally denoted a small fortification garrisoned by troops, in North America it was used to designate virtually any establishment—civil or military—associated with protection from adversaries, regardless of whether any actual fortifications were included.
an enclosed fortification defended by artillery; a complex, multi-component earthwork; a wooden stockade with corner blockhouses, often with ditching or other earthen components; generically, a military base.
Fort is the business district of Mumbai, India. The area was the heart of the city during the 18th century. The area gets its name from the defensive fort built by the British East India Company around Bombay Castle.