Bastille
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See also: bastille
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French Bastille, from bastille (“fortress”): see further at the English entry bastille. The building was known in full as the Bastille Saint-Antoine, and was a former fortress used as a prison by the French monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bæˈstiːl/, /bɑː-/, /ˈbæstɪl/, /ˈbɑː-/, [bæˈstɪəɫ]
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /bæˈstil/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: (one pronunciation) -iːl
- Hyphenation: Bast‧ille
Proper noun[edit]
the Bastille
- A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
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Translations[edit]
former fortress and prison in Paris, France
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References[edit]
- ^ “bastille, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “Bastille, proper n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bastille (“fortress”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
la Bastille f
- Bastille (“former prison”)
- Parisian district around place de la Bastille, where the prison stood
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