fortress

As nouns the difference between fortress and mortress

is that fortress is a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security while mortress is .

As a verb fortress

is to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and fortress

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while fortress is a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

As a verb fortress is

to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

As nouns the difference between rampart and fortress

is that rampart is a defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose while fortress is a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

As verbs the difference between rampart and fortress

is that rampart is to defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart while fortress is to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

As nouns the difference between fortress and bastille

is that fortress is a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security while bastille is a castle tower, or fortified building; a small citadel or fortress.

As a verb fortress

is to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

As a proper noun Bastille is

a prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution.

As nouns the difference between fortress and palanka

is that fortress is a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security while palanka is (military|historical) a permanently entrenched camp attached to turkish frontier fortresses.

As a verb fortress

is to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

As nouns the difference between fortress and demilune

is that fortress is a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security while demilune is a fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin.

As a verb fortress

is to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

As an adjective demilune is

in the shape of a half-moon, i.e. semicircular.

As a noun fortress

is a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

As a verb fortress

is to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

As an adjective fortresslike is

resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.