Forts

Word FORTS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Forts"

What do we mean by forts?

A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.

Any permanent army post.

An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Forts

  • Synonyms for forts
  • Forts synonyms not found!!!
  • Antonyms for forts
  • Forts antonyms not found!

The word "forts" in example sentences

The numbers facing each other at Puebla did not appear to hold out any hope for Zaragoza, who dug his forces into defensive positions centered on the twin forts of Loreto and Guadalupe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“It is true that Faery hills are sometimes known as forts,” she said. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

One of the most extensive of these forts is Vercovicium (now known as Housesteads), where there is also a small museum. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To forbid them to buy soldiers, guns and forts is asking for trouble. ❋ Unknown (1938)

In speaking upon one occasion, I said I was pleased. to know there were not strong forts from the Atlantic to the Pacific between us and our American neighbours such as there is in Germany between that country and France; but instead, that these Canadian Clubs might be taken as so many redoubts spread along the border line and seeking to make of all Canadians strong integral parts of the British Empire. ❋ Unknown (1911)

It was all full of Indians, and bears, and wild creatures, and they lived in forts, and had a dreadful time. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Of the sports enjoyed by himself and the other boys of the district school, he writes: "We amused ourselves with building dams across the rivulet, and launching rafts made of old boards on the collected water; and in winter, with sliding on the ice and building snow barricades, which we called forts, and, dividing the boys into two armies, and using snowballs for ammunition, we contended for the possession of these strongholds. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

I have signed an order establishing what can best be called forts, military outposts designed to be as largely self-sufficient as possible, like the American frontier outposts we have all seen in the American Indian capitalist exploitation films. ❋ Ahern, Jerry (1981)

Nor even within the walls of the forts was the Russian soldier entirely safe from his wily adversary. ❋ John Milton Mackie (N/A)

American redoubts, known as forts Nos. 1, 2 and 3, crowned this same hill. ❋ Charles Gilbert Hine (N/A)

The forts were the first to open fire on both steamer and boats, which was quickly and smartly returned. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)

In an instant one of the forts was a mass of opalescence that shifted so swiftly it was purest white, then rocketed away, lifeless, and no longer relux. ❋ John Wood Campbell (1940)

Habitation -- as the French called their forts -- while he himself would go up-stream to seek the Indians for trade. ❋ Unknown (1903)

"The forts are our king's; the man is with my conscience, my dear friend." ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Cross Reference for Forts

  • Forts cross reference not found!

What does forts mean?

Best Free Book Reviews
Book Name Author
Silenced Girls E-Book Roger Stelljes
Ruthless Hawke E-Book Gwyn McNamee
The Next Girl E-Book Carla Kovach
Finding Cinderella E-Book Colleen Hoover
Once Upon a Beast E-Book Kyra Jacobs
Best IOS App Reviews