That village is the enemy's last stronghold.
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Stronghold
//ˈstɹɒŋhəʊld//
Synonyms for "stronghold" (56 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (28)
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1 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
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6 entriesTranslations
108 translations across 42 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἔρυμα noun (place built to withstand attack)
- ὀχύρωμα noun (place built to withstand attack)
Arabic
1 entries- حِصْن noun (place built to withstand attack)
Belarusian
4 entries- апло́т noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- крэ́пасць noun (place built to withstand attack)
- фартэ́ца noun (place built to withstand attack)
- фартэ́цыя noun (place built to withstand attack)
Bulgarian
3 entries- кре́пост noun (place built to withstand attack)
- крепост noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- укрепление noun (place built to withstand attack)
Catalan
1 entries- fortalesa noun (place built to withstand attack)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بنکە noun (place built to withstand attack)
Czech
4 entries- bašta noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- opevnění noun (place built to withstand attack)
- pevnost noun (place built to withstand attack)
- tvrz noun (place built to withstand attack)
Danish
3 entries- borg noun (place built to withstand attack)
- højborg noun (place built to withstand attack)
- højborg noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Dutch
4 entries- bastion noun (place built to withstand attack)
- bolwerk noun (place built to withstand attack)
- bolwerk noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- fort noun (place built to withstand attack)
Esperanto
1 entries- fortikaĵo noun (place built to withstand attack)
Faroese
1 entries- háborg noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Finnish
4 entries- keskuspaikka noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- linnake noun (place built to withstand attack)
- linnake noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- linnoitus noun (place built to withstand attack)
French
3 entries- bastion noun (place built to withstand attack)
- fief noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- place forte noun (place built to withstand attack)
Galician
1 entries- fortaleza noun (place built to withstand attack)
German
2 entries- Festung noun (place built to withstand attack)
- Hochburg noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍄𐌿𐌻𐌲𐌹𐌸𐌰 noun (place built to withstand attack)
Greek
3 entries- οχυρό noun (place built to withstand attack)
- οχυρό noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- φρούριο noun (place built to withstand attack)
Hungarian
1 entries- erőd noun (place built to withstand attack)
Icelandic
1 entries- aðalvígi noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Irish
2 entries- daingean noun (place built to withstand attack)
- dún noun (place built to withstand attack)
Italian
2 entries- baluardo noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- bastione noun (place built to withstand attack)
Korean
1 entries- 아성 noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Latin
2 entries- arx noun (place built to withstand attack)
- robur noun (place built to withstand attack)
Macedonian
4 entries- збег noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- крепост noun (place built to withstand attack)
- тврдина noun (place built to withstand attack)
- упориште noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- høyborg noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- høgborg noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Old English
1 entries- fæsten noun (place built to withstand attack)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- حصار noun (place built to withstand attack)
- حصن noun (place built to withstand attack)
- قسطل noun (place built to withstand attack)
- قلعه noun (place built to withstand attack)
Polish
4 entries- bastion noun (place built to withstand attack)
- bastion noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- forteca noun (place built to withstand attack)
- twierdza noun (place built to withstand attack)
Portuguese
1 entries- fortaleza noun (place built to withstand attack)
Romanian
1 entries- fortăreață noun (place built to withstand attack)
Russian
4 entries- кре́пость noun (place built to withstand attack)
- опло́т noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- тверды́ня noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- твердыня noun (place built to withstand attack)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dùn noun (place built to withstand attack)
Slovak
3 entries- bašta noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- pevnosť noun (place built to withstand attack)
- tvrdza noun (place built to withstand attack)
Slovene
1 entries- utrdba noun (place built to withstand attack)
Spanish
4 entries- baluarte noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- bastión noun (place built to withstand attack)
- fortaleza noun (place built to withstand attack)
- fuerte noun (place built to withstand attack)
Swedish
4 entries- bålverk noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- fäste noun (place built to withstand attack)
- fäste noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- högborg noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Tamil
2 entries- அரண் noun (place built to withstand attack)
- கோட்டை noun (place built to withstand attack)
Turkish
3 entries- hısn noun (place built to withstand attack)
- kale noun (place built to withstand attack)
- kale noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Ukrainian
4 entries- крі́пость noun (place built to withstand attack)
- о́пліт noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- опло́т noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- оплі́т noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thành trì noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
Welsh
2 entries- amddiffynfa noun (place of domination, or refuge or survival)
- cadarnle noun (place built to withstand attack)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
The thief has to be in here. I'm sure somewhere around is his stronghold so if we can just find that we've got him.
Source: tatoeba (327858)
Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.
Source: tatoeba (535966)
"Kabylia has invested in its identity, but has never been a stronghold of Islam," Mehenni said.
Source: tatoeba (8143729)
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