bastille
(noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
Bastille
(noun) a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bastille (plural bastilles)
A castle tower, or fortified building; a small citadel or fortress.
A prison or jail.
bastille (third-person singular simple present bastilles, present participle bastilling, simple past and past participle bastilled)
To confine as though in a bastille; to imprison.
• Balliets, bile salt, listable
Bastille
A prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution.
• Balliets, bile salt, listable
Source: Wiktionary
Bas*tile" Bas*tille", n. Etym: [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. b.]
1. (Feud. Fort.)
Definition: A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.
2. "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 May 2025
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
