What is a stronghold? The interpretation of this word may cause difficulty due to the fact that it is outdated. And it is used in a figurative sense when it comes to a high style of presentation of the material. Detailed information that this is a stronghold can be found in the proposed article.
Deprecated Option
The dictionary says that earlier in Ancient Russia the stronghold was called a defensive structure, which was an obstacle to the advancement of something undesirable, a fortified fence, that is, ramparts or fortified walls. To understand this meaning of the word "stronghold" will help examples of sentences in which it is contained.
- Sergei Ivanovich reasoned that they live too abusively in their area, too openly: the gates are locked with a wooden lock, the yards are fenced with an unreliable log stronghold, while castles are built in other lands, and the gates are locked with iron locks and large locks every night.
- N. M. Karamzin said of the Svyatoslav soldiers: “At first they hooked up tyn, then lit strongholds, but a strong wind began to blow directly into their faces, however, encouraged by the prince’s speech, they approached from the opposite side and lit the city in the wind.”
- In the Russian fortification business, the fortress walls were called the spindle or stronghold, they were made of wood, clay, stone, earth.
Figuratively
The next variant of interpretation in the dictionary is marked “figurative meaning” and “exalted style”. In this case, it is used in combination with a noun in the genitive case and says that the stronghold is a stronghold, support, reliable protection.
Here are sample sentences for this option:
- And let your conscience become your assistant, let it be a guide on a new path, where qualities such as intelligence and intellect will acquire true meaning and thereby provide a strong bulwark for qualities that depend on the highest spiritual quality - conscience.
- At the end of the European War, a nation that crashed, which used to be as belligerent as the others, became pacifist and transformed into a bulwark of enlightenment.
- The jury trial is the main advantage, the indisputable, main stronghold of the liberties of the English people.
Next will be given words that are close in meaning to the subject.
Synonyms
Synonyms for the word stronghold:
- fortress;
- citadel;
- refuge
- support;
- construction;
- protection;
- fence;
- pillar;
- bastion;
- palladium;
- stronghold;
- brequator;
- reliable protection;
- fencing;
- support;
- intercession;
- security;
- security;
- defense;
- prevention;
- shield;
- patronage;
- patronage;
- patronage;
- inviolability;
- capitality;
- boom;
- strengthening;
- blover;
- fort;
- childish;
- chrome;
- screening;
- refuge
- shelter.
As you can see, the “stronghold” has quite a lot of synonyms, if you wish, you can pick up others.
Etymology
Dealing with what a “stronghold” is will be easier to learn about the origin of the word. Originally it meant "fence", "wattle fence", "wicker fence". The studied noun is formed from the verb "braid" with the mutation o / e, which came from the verb "weave" by attaching the prefix "o" to it.
The latter goes back to the pre-Slavic verb plestī, from which, among other things, are formed:
- Old Russian and Old Slavonic, Russian, Ukrainian - weave, whip;
- Belarusian - mold;
- Bulgarian - whip;
- Serbo-Croatian - plѐsti, plѐtȇm;
- Slovenian - plésti, plétem;
- Czech - plést, pletu;
- Slovak - pliesť, pletiem;
- Polish - pleść, plotę;
- Upper Luga - plesć;
- Lower Luzhskoe - plasć.
The word goes back to the pre-Indo-European basis of plek and is related:
- Latin - plecto;
- Old High German - flehtan;
- the Greek verb πλέκω - “weave”;
- noun: πλεκτή, meaning “rope, net”, πλοκή, which translates as “weaving”, πλόκος in the meaning “braid, braided hair”;
- ancient Indian - prac̨nas, which means "weaving, wicker basket."
Other values
In addition to those indicated in the dictionary, there are other interpretations of the studied object. These include the following:
- In some sources on fortification, a stronghold means a “strong point”, that is, a defense or resistance unit.
- In armored vehicles - this is the name of the Ukrainian battle tank, which was the main one before it was adopted by the T-84U. And also the name of the BM tank "Oplot", which was the main one before the adoption of the "Oplot-M".
- This is also the name of one of the armed groups in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic.
- The name of the public organization created in 2010 in Kharkov by Evgeny Zhilin, a former officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who is also its head. The organization became famous in Ukraine during the political crisis in 2013-2014. Its main tasks are to provide financial, legal, social and moral assistance to the families of police officers who died while performing their official duty. As well as military personnel who lost their ability to work during the hostilities and those who, due to various life circumstances or age, cannot secure a decent living on their own. Another area of Oplot’s activity is military-historical work, which includes counteracting attempts to heroize Ukrainian nationalists, financing the search for the remains of the dead Red Army soldiers, and caring for memorable places of the Second World War.
- The novel by Theodore Dreiser, an American prose writer who was published in 1946, after the death of the writer.