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rampart - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

rampart (plural ramparts)

  • 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.
    • ✤ Between the southern end of the village, called Bridge End, and the River Thames runs a double row of ramparts and a ditch known as Dyke Hills.1
  • A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
  • That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
  • (usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.

Verb

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

  • To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.
    • ✤ Those grassy Hills, those glitt’ring Dells
      Proudly ramparted with rocks      2

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɹæm.pɑː(ɹ)t/
  • Audio (US): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 154, about Dorchester, Oxon: ↩

  2. 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ode on the Departing Year ‎ (pamphlet), Bristol, page 14: ↩

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