redoubt

[ ri-dout ]
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noun
  1. Fortification.

    • an isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point.

    • an independent earthwork built within a permanent fortification to reinforce it.

  2. any safe and secure place or situation; refuge; stronghold: Lebanon has represented one of the last redoubts of Christianity in the Middle East.

Origin of redoubt

1
First recorded in 1600–10; from French redoute, from Italian ridotto, from Late Latin reductus “a refuge,” noun use of past participle of Latin redūcere “to lead back”; see reduce

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Redoubt
[ ri-dout, ree-dout ]

noun
  1. Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3,108 meters).

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British Dictionary definitions for redoubt

redoubt

/ (rɪˈdaʊt) /


noun
  1. an outwork or detached fieldwork defending a pass, hilltop, etc

  2. a temporary defence work built inside a fortification as a last defensive position

Origin of redoubt

1
C17: via French from obsolete Italian ridotta, from Medieval Latin reductus shelter, from Latin redūcere to withdraw, from re- + dūcere to lead

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