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rampart

Overview

This page has 5 definitions of rampart in English. Rampart is a noun and verb. Also define these 13 related words and terms: mound, parapet, ridge, debris, embankment, barrier, bulwark, defend, intrusion, protection, gorge, fortify, and surround.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rempart (a rampart of a fort), from Old French remparer (to defend, fortify, inclose with a rampart), from re- (again) + emparer (to defend, fortify, surround, seize, take possesion of), from Old Occitan amparer, from Vulgar Latin *anteparō (to prepare), from Latin ante- + parō (to prepare).

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Noun

rampart (plural ramparts)

  1. 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.
    • Ridge definition
      The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. (1 of 9 ridge definitions)
  2. A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
  3. That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
  4. (usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.

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Verb

rampart (third-person singular simple present ramparts, present participle ramparting, simple past and past participle ramparted)

  1. To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.
    • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ode on the Departing Year
      Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, / Proudly ramparted with rocks.

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