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strong⋅hold

  [strawng-hohld, strong-]
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–noun
1. a well-fortified place; fortress.
2. a place that serves as the center of a group, as of militants or of persons holding a controversial viewpoint: The campus was a stronghold of liberalism.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME; see strong, hold 1

Synonyms:
1, 2. bulwark, bastion. 2. home, refuge.
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strong·hold   (strông'hōld')   
n.  

  1. A fortified place or a fortress.

    1. A place of survival or refuge: one of the last strongholds of an age-old tradition.

    2. An area dominated or occupied by a special group or distinguished by a special quality: a feminist stronghold; a stronghold of democracy.

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Word Origin & History

stronghold 
c.1425, from strong (adj.) + hold (n.) "fortified place, refuge."
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