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# stronghold

«stronghold» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong, well-defended place such as a castle or fort…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stronghold, strongholds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A stronghold is a strong, well-defended place such as a castle or fort that is hard to attack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#m1)

2) A stronghold is also a place where a group, idea, animal or plant is still strong and common: "The Highlands are a stronghold of the red squirrel." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#m2)

3) In politics, a stronghold is an area where most people support one party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons castles, hill forts and mountain hideouts are strongholds. In science and conservation, a stronghold is where a rare species survives in good numbers. In news, "a party's stronghold". In stories it is where the hero or villain hides. Phrases: "last stronghold", "rebel stronghold", "stronghold of".

### examples

- The knights retreated to their stronghold on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#x1)
- The castle was a stronghold that no army could take. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#x2)
- Scotland is a stronghold for red squirrels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#x3)
- The rebels held a stronghold in the mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#x4)
- This town is a stronghold of the Labour Party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#x5)
- The villain's stronghold was hidden under the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#x6)
- The island is the last stronghold of the rare bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#x7)
- She travelled in the direction of Iollan’s stronghold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stronghold/#x8)

### note

Countable: a stronghold, strongholds. Compound of strong + hold. Close words: fortress, castle, fort, bastion.

### In the corpora

- [And he brought them before the king of Moab; and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.640/)
- [And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.677/)
- [And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.695/)
- [And Saul went home; but David and his men got them up unto the stronghold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.720/)
- [Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.133/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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