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# fort

«fort» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong building or group of buildings with thick walls…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fort, forts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fort is a strong building or group of buildings with thick walls, built to protect soldiers and people from attack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#m1)

2) A fort is a children's den or hideout made from boxes, blankets or branches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#m2)

3) «Hold the fort» means look after things while someone is away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history, pupils learn about Roman forts (like those along Hadrian's Wall), castles, and frontier forts in North America; forts had walls, towers, gates and ditches. In everyday play, children build blanket forts or snow forts. Safety: when building forts outdoors, do not dig into sand banks or use heavy loose wood that can fall. Phrases: hold the fort, build a fort, blanket fort, Roman fort, snow fort.

### examples

- The Romans built forts along Hadrian's Wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#x1)
- We built a blanket fort in the living room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#x2)
- The soldiers defended the fort from attack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#x3)
- My friends and I made a snow fort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#x4)
- Can you hold the fort while I go to the shop? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#x5)
- Fort William is a town in Scotland named after an old fort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#x6)
- Taram-taq was left alone; he would have retired into his fort, but the prince shouted: “Whither away, accursed one? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/#x7)

### note

Countable: forts. Many place names begin with «Fort» (Fort Worth, Fort William). Do not confuse with «fought» (past of fight) — similar sound in some accents — or «forte» (a strong point).

### In the corpora

- [The Portuguese did not simply join the Indian Ocean trade but used warships and forts to force others to buy passes and pay duties.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fort» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fort/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.