Synonyms of fortresses

fortresses

noun

plural of fortress

as in strongholds

a structure or place from which one can resist attack

the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• strongholds
• fortifications
• bastions
• citadels
• castles
• forts
• ramparts
• parapets
• redoubts
• bunkers
• battlements
• earthworks
• breastworks
• bulwarks
• blockhouses
• holds
• embattlements
• dugouts
• garrison houses
• casbahs
• alcazars

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fortresses

Libraries 'don't want to be fortresses' Neither Jackson, UCLA, nor UC Berkeley responded to requests for comment. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 15 July 2026

There are also those invested in the lore and mystique, especially of the fortresses and palaces said to have inspired books and movies. — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2026

While typical apparel brands struggle with changing seasonal trends and thin profits, giants such as LVMH, Christian Dior, Hermès, Richemont and Nike have built financial fortresses. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 29 June 2026

Some, like France's Maginot Line, became border fortresses stretching for miles, while German coastal defenses sat on the cliffs of Normandy, requiring the Allies to take out with sea bombardments and direct infantry assaults. — David Szondy june 23, New Atlas, 23 June 2026

The trailers show that Eternia was once a vibrant alien-like world with multi-colored forests, massive mountains and fortresses with towering faces carved into their entrances. — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

And by the turn of the twenty-first century, most of those tiny bungalows had been replaced by sprawling estates—fortresses for the entertainment elite, where Oscar trophies adorned mantels and wealth guarded from disaster. — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026

Any pivot toward diplomacy that includes sanctions relief — whether proposed in Washington or Berlin — ignores the fundamental Machiavellian truth that a regime hated by its own people cannot be saved by its external fortresses, but it can be artificially sustained by foreign gold. — Liram Koblentz-Stenzler, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026

The eccentric design of Olana was inspired by fortresses in Persia (where, curiously, Church hadn’t travelled), as well as Italian, East Indian, Gothic Revival, and French Second Empire architecture. — Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026