1
: a strong or fortified place
especially
: a fortified place occupied only by troops and surrounded with such works as a ditch, rampart, and parapet : fortification
2
: a permanent army post
—often used in place names
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Examples of fort in a Sentence
They captured the fort after a long battle.
a series of forts along the frontier
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With fellow senior Evelyn Connor holding down the fort defensively for the Lions, the third and final senior Kaelin Ault followed Hoffman’s lead, hitting a home run of her own in the bottom of the fourth to break a 3-3 tie.
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Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
And so that comes with a lot of trauma, a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of unresolved feelings that men have to carry and still be able to hold the fort down.
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Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
And so that comes with a lot of trauma, a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of unresolved feelings that men have to carry and still be able to hold the fort down.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024
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“Fort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fort. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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fort
noun
ˈfō(ə)rt 
ˈfȯ(ə)rt
1
: a strong or fortified place
2
: a permanent army post
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