: a fortified place : stronghold
especially
: a large and permanent fortification sometimes including a town
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the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight
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Finding individuals with the expertise to transform applications into secure fortresses with additional layers of defense for protecting customer data is a challenge.
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Gil Dabah, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
During World War II, the Nazis transformed the Czech fortress town into a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp, a transit point for over 150,000 Jews sent to their deaths.
—Sean Erwin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
The version of Sforza Castle that exists today is actually its second iteration, and was built in 1450 on the ruins of a previous fortress destroyed during political instability three years earlier.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
Colorful Old San Juan is home to the 16th-century Spanish colonial fortress Castillo San Cristobal and other UNESCO World Heritage sites, and fantastic restaurants like Santaella or La Casita Blanca, where the tostones and mofongo are not to be missed.
—Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 23 Jan. 2025
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Gil Dabah, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
During World War II, the Nazis transformed the Czech fortress town into a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp, a transit point for over 150,000 Jews sent to their deaths.
—Sean Erwin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
The version of Sforza Castle that exists today is actually its second iteration, and was built in 1450 on the ruins of a previous fortress destroyed during political instability three years earlier.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
Colorful Old San Juan is home to the 16th-century Spanish colonial fortress Castillo San Cristobal and other UNESCO World Heritage sites, and fantastic restaurants like Santaella or La Casita Blanca, where the tostones and mofongo are not to be missed.
—Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Fortress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fortress. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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fortress
noun
for·tress
ˈfȯr-trəs 
: a fortified place
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