fort


Definition: Meaning of, fort in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / fɔːt /

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fort forts
[countable]
  1. a strong building or group of buildings used by soldiers or an army for defending an important place
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fort used in phrases

  • Fort George Gordon Meade (noun)
    1. a United States Army base in Maryland; headquarters of the National Security Agency
  • Fort Knox
    1. a military building in the US state of Kentucky which holds the government's store of gold. People often use the name 'Fort Knox' when talking about a place that is extremely well guarded or impossible to enter without permission
  • Fort Lauderdale (noun)
    1. a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favourite place for college students to go on their spring vacations
  • Fort Meade (noun)
    1. a United States Army base in Maryland; headquarters of the National Security Agency
  • Fort Myers (noun)
    1. a town in southwest Florida
  • Fort Smith (noun)
    1. a town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border
  • Fort Ticonderoga (noun)
    1. a pitched battle in which American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775
  • Fort Wayne (noun)
    1. a city in northeastern Indiana
  • Fort Worth
    1. a city in the northeast of the US state of Texas, near Dallas. It is a centre for farming, the oil industry, and the aircraft-building industry.
  • Fort-Lamy (noun)
    1. the capital and largest city of Chad; located in the southwestern on the Shari river
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