I celebrated Bastille day with a baguette, Roquefort and a glass of mediocre French red.
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Bastille
//bæˈstiːl//
Synonyms for "bastille" (74 found)
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40 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- سَجْن اَلْبَاسْتِيل name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
Armenian
3 entries- Բաստիլ name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
- ամրոց noun (fortified tower or other building)
- աշտարակ noun (fortified tower or other building)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Басти́лия name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 巴士底獄 /巴士底狱 name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
- 城堡 noun (fortified tower or other building)
Dutch
2 entries- donjon noun (fortified tower or other building)
- donjon noun (jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners — see also jail, prison)
Finnish
4 entries- Bastilji name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
- bastilji noun (fortified tower or other building)
- bastilji noun (fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; any of the buildings in such an encampment)
- tyrmä noun (jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners — see also jail, prison)
French
4 entries- Bastille name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
- bastille noun (jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners — see also jail, prison)
- bastion noun (fortified tower or other building)
- embastiller verb (to confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille or prison — see also imprison)
German
4 entries- Festung noun (fortified tower or other building)
- Kerker noun (jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners — see also jail, prison)
- einkerkern verb (to confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille or prison — see also imprison)
- gefangen halten verb (to confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille or prison — see also imprison)
Hindi
1 entries- क़िला noun (fortified tower or other building)
Japanese
1 entries- バスティーユ牢獄 name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
Korean
1 entries- 바스티유 감옥 name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
Macedonian
2 entries- басти́лја noun (jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners — see also jail, prison)
- кре́пост noun (fortified tower or other building)
Portuguese
4 entries- Bastilha name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
- bastilha noun (fortified tower or other building)
- bastilha noun (jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners — see also jail, prison)
- aprisionar verb (to confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille or prison — see also imprison)
Romanian
1 entries- Bastilia name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
Russian
3 entries- Басти́лия name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
- басти́лия noun (jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners — see also jail, prison)
- кре́пость noun (fortified tower or other building)
Spanish
2 entries- Bastilla name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
- fortaleza noun (fortified tower or other building)
Swedish
1 entries- Bastiljen name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
Turkish
1 entries- Bastille name (former fortress and prison in Paris, France)
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France marked Bastille Day Saturday with its traditional display of military might — a veritable assault of troops, helicopters, fighter planes taking over the skies and the famous Champs Elysees avenue of Paris.
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Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump was at the Bastille Day parade here in a visit that forged a personal bond with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.
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He planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day.
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