bastión
Spanish, noun/basˈtjon/
bastión is spelled B-A-S-T-I-Ó-N (7 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 21,583rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bastión is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “bastion, bulwark” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Una fortificación exterior, situada generalmente en las esquinas de los muros de una fortaleza, con el fin de…”.
What does bastión mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebastion, bulwark
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Una fortificación exterior, situada generalmente en las esquinas de los muros de una fortaleza, con el fin de defender.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bastión
- bastiones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bastión?
- /basˈtjon/
- [basˈt̪jõn]
- [bast̪iˈõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bastión
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bastión in Spanish?
bastión appears 2.1 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).