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RAMPART
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
Example:
they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("rampart" is a kind of...):
embankment (a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rampart"):
bailey (the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle)
battlement; crenelation; crenellation (a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns)
earthwork (an earthen rampart)
fraise (sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes)
merlon (a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement)
Instance hyponyms:
Antonine Wall (a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain)
Chinese Wall; Great Wall; Great Wall of China (a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width)
Holonyms ("rampart" is a part of...):
fortification; munition (defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it)
Context examples:
I have to inform you, my dearest Fanny, that Henry has been down to Portsmouth to see you; that he had a delightful walk with you to the dockyard last Saturday, and one still more to be dwelt on the next day, on the ramparts; when the balmy air, the sparkling sea, and your sweet looks and conversation were altogether in the most delicious harmony, and afforded sensations which are to raise ecstasy even in retrospect.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
