Fortress

Noun

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

Verb

 * 1) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

Adjectives for Fortress
level; mighty;  permanent;  improvised; baronial; gloomy; island; feminine; garrisoned; inaccessible; dismantled; frowning; seductive; insulated; frost-locked; grim; walled; magnificent; medieval; ragged; beleaguered; rock-bound; impregnable; isolated.

Thesaurus
acropolis, bastion, beachhead, blockhouse, bridgehead, bunker, castle, citadel, donjon, fasthold, fastness, fort, garrison, garrison house, hold, keep, martello, martello tower, mote, motte, peel, peel tower, pillbox, post, rath, redoubt, safehold, strong point, stronghold, tower, tower of strength, ward

Etymology
forteresce:, from

Noun

 * Ainu: チャシ (chashi)
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قلعة, حصن
 * Armenian: ամրոց, բերդ
 * Belarusian: крэпасць
 * Bulgarian: крепост
 * Catalan: fortalesa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 要塞, 城堡, 堡壘, 堡垒
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fortreso, fortiko
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: φρούριο
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: गढी
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 要塞
 * Korean: 요새 (要塞)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, кале,  крепост
 * Norwegian: festning
 * Old English:
 * Persian: (dezh), دژ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, fortăreață
 * Russian: крепость
 * Scots: fortress
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тврђава
 * Roman: tvrđava
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: фортеця
 * Welsh:
 * Welsh: