Fort

See also: fort, fört, fořt, for't, and fort-

English

Proper noun

Fort

1. A surname.
2. A district of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

See also

• St Fort

Anagrams

• TofR, frot

Dutch

Etymology

From fort (“fort, fortress”). As a district of Colombo, from serving as the site of the Dutch East India Company's Fort Colombo. As a Dutch village, originally the name of a farm first attested as Het Fort in 1851–1855.

See also Dutch Low Saxon Fört.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Fort
• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Homophone: fort

Proper noun

Fort n

1. a village in De Wolden, Drenthe, Netherlands
2. a district of Colombo, Sri Lanka

References

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

German

Etymology

From French fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [foːɐ̯]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: vor

Noun

Fort n (strong, genitive Forts, plural Forts)

1. fort (fortified defensive structure stationed with troops)

Declension

Declension of Fort [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Fort	die	Forts
genitive	eines	des	Forts	der	Forts
dative	einem	dem	Fort	den	Forts
accusative	ein	das	Fort	die	Forts

Further reading

• “Fort” in Duden online
• “Fort” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache