Fortification

Noun

 * 1) The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
 * 2) That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.

Synonyms for Fortification
escarpment, breastwork, fortress, fort, blockhouse, trenches, castle, citadel, fastness, defenses, protection, parapet, bunker, wall, entrenchment, stronghold.

Thesaurus
abatis, advanced work, affirmation, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bearing out, bolstering, breastwork, bulwark, buttressing, case hardening, casemate, certification, cheval-de-frise, circumstantiation, circumvallation, confirmation, contravallation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, documentation, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, enrichment, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, glacis, hardening, invigoration, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, proof, proving, proving out, rampart, ratification, ravelin, redan, redoubt, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restoration, restrengthening, revivification, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, strengthening, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, tempering, tenaille, undergirding, validation, vallation, vallum, verification, vitaminization, work

Etymology
From fortificatio:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 防禦工事, 防御工事,
 * Finnish: linnoittaminen
 * French: fortification, renforcement
 * German: Festungsbau, Befestigen
 * Italian:
 * Latin:, munitio
 * Portuguese: fortificação, fortificar


 * Russian: фортификация, укрепление
 * Spanish:


 * Ancient Greek:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 防禦工事, 防御工事,, 堡壘, 堡垒
 * Finnish: linnoite,
 * French: fortification, renforcement
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: munitio,


 * Portuguese: fortificação
 * Russian: укрепления
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From fortificatio:.

Noun

 * 1)  all meanings