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Noun fort has 2 senses
- garrison, fort - a fortified military post where troops are stationed
--1 is a kind of military post, post
--1 has particulars: Fort Meade, Fort George Gordon Meade, Fort George G. Meade
- fortress, fort - a fortified defensive structure
--2 is a kind of defensive structure, defense, defence
--2 has parts: battlement, crenelation, crenellation
--2 has particulars:
Verb fort has 3 senses
- fort, fort up - gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense
--1 is one way to meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- fortify, fort - enclose by or as if by a fortification
--2 is one way to enclose, inclose, shut in
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- fort - station (troops) in a fort
--3 is one way to station, post, base, send, place
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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