All embattlement synonyms

noun embattlement

• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• citadel — In the past, a citadel was a strong building in or near a city, where people could shelter for safety.
• fortress — a large fortified place; a fort or group of forts, often including a town; citadel.
• reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
• barrier — A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
• bastion — If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended.
• battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
• breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
• buffer — A buffer is something that prevents something else from being harmed or that prevents two things from harming each other.
• bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
• castle — A castle is a large building with thick, high walls. Castles were built by important people, such as kings, in former times, especially for protection during wars and battles.
• consolidation — the act of consolidating or state of being consolidated
• defence — Defence is action that is taken to protect someone or something against attack.
• defense — the act or power of defending, or guarding against attack, harm, or danger
• earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
• fastness — a secure or fortified place; stronghold: a mountain fastness.
• fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
• garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• outpost — a station established at a distance from the main body of an army to protect it from surprise attack: We keep only a small garrison of men at our desert outposts.
• parapet — Fortification. a defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification. an elevation raised above the main wall or rampart of a permanent fortification.
• preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
• presidio — a garrisoned fort; military post.
• protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
• stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
• strengthening — to make stronger; give strength to.
• stronghold — a well-fortified place; fortress.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
• fortification — the act of fortifying or strengthening.
• rampart — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
• tower — the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.