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# rampart

«rampart» in Mova's school dictionary: **a high wall of earth or stone built to defend a town or…** — 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 (ramparts in the plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A rampart is a high wall of earth or stone built to defend a town or castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rampart/#m1)

2) The ramparts are the walkway along the top of such a wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rampart/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the strong walls of a castle or city where guards stand

### examples

- The soldiers stood on the ramparts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rampart/#x1)
- The town was guarded by high ramparts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rampart/#x2)
- We walked along the ramparts and looked at the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rampart/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Mark ye well her ramparts, traverse her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.794/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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