Rampart Synonyms

rămpärt, -pərt
Work prepared for defense
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. barricade
  2. embankment
  3. earthwork
An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bulwark
  2. wall
  3. agger
  4. barricade
  5. vallum
  6. barrier
  7. breastwork
  8. bastion
  9. fortification
  10. defense
  11. embankment
  12. parapet
  13. protection
  14. security
A means of protection or defense; a bulwark.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bulwark

Words Related to Rampart

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. support
  2. mound
  3. battlement
  4. fortress
  5. glacis
  6. citadel
  7. watch-tower
  8. rock-cut
  9. palisade

Rampart Sentence Examples

  • It is surrounded by a rampart and moat, with five gates, and contains fine palaces, temples and tombs.

  • Its ramparts are of stone, and its north rampart coincides with the great wall of Hadrian.

  • To this period also belongs the massive rampart, over o ft.

  • Two years after the rebellion of 1641 a rampart was raised round the town, pierced by four gates on the land side.

  • Here and there were large villages that had grown up about groups of houses surrounded by an earthen mound or rampart; similar groups enclosed in this manner were also to be found without any annexed hamlet.

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