Synonyms for stronghold
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : strawng-hohld, strong- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈstrɔŋˌhoʊld, ˈstrɒŋ- |
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Définition of stronghold
Origin :- early 15c., from strong (adj.) + hold (n.) "fortified place, refuge."
- noun refuge
- Meantime the stronghold of Mauburn's optimism was being desperately stormed.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- This stronghold Morgan must have if he ever hoped to win Panama.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- Silchester was originally a British stronghold, and was called by them Calleva.
- Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
- Otherwise, not on Morality, but on Cookery, let us build our stronghold.
- Extract from : « Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics » by William Thomas Thornton
- Stronghold after stronghold fell into their hands, until they were in Urbino itself.
- Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
- On the following day he withdrew to the stronghold of Spoleto.
- Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
- “He surrendered a French stronghold,” continued 284 the servant, softly.
- Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham
- The scourge had been conquered in its first and only stronghold.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various
- Honor to him who can lead the forlorn hope of this stronghold of weariness.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- The stronghold of these demands lies west of the Alleghanies.
- Extract from : « The Frontier in American History » by Frederick Jackson Turner
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