bulwark
A defensive wall or rampartA defensive wall or rampart.
» You are our bulwark against anihilation.
Meaning
5 sensesA defensive wall or rampart.
Bollwerk
валval, бастио́нbastión, реду́тredút
валval, бастіонbastion
A defense or safeguard.
Bollwerk
опло́тoplót, защи́таzaščíta, опо́раopóra
опораopora, оплотoplot, захистzaxyst
A breakwater.
The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
Schanzkleid
фальшбо́ртfalʹšbórt
фальшбортfalʹšbort
(figuratively)Any means of defence or security.
The party stalwarts constitute the bulwark that ensures the president's term of office.
- a fencelike structure around a deck
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
Examples
3 sentencesYou are our bulwark against anihilation.
Islam is a bulwark against gender ideology.
While the conscience of the scientist insists that he continually recheck the truth of this law, it remains a bulwark of science.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English bulwerk, from Middle Dutch bolwerk, bolwerc and Middle Low German bolwFrom Middle English bulwerk, from Middle Dutch bolwerk, bolwerc and Middle Low German bolwerk, equivalent to bole (“tree trunk”) + work. Cognate with German Bollwerk, Danish bolværk, Swedish bålverk, Dutch bolwerk. Doublet of boulevard (from French boulevard, from Dutch); cognate with Portuguese and Spanish baluarte and Italian baluardo.
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