Dictionary Definition
rampart n : an embankment built around a space
for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city";
"they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" [syn:
bulwark, wall]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Old French rempartPronunciation
- /ˈræm.pɒːt/, /"r
Extensive Definition
Rampart may refer to:
- A type of defensive wall consisting of a low earthen embankment topped by a parapet or palisade
- LAPD Rampart Division, a division of the Los Angeles Police Department
- Ramparts Magazine, a leftist American magazine
- Rampart (arcade game), a 1990 puzzle arcade game
- Rampart Street in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Rampart Search and Rescue located in Adams County, Colorado
- Rampart, Alaska, a census-designated place
- Rampart crater, a feature on Mars
- RampART Social Center, an anti-authoritarian social centre in Whitechapel, East London UK
- Ramparts, instrumental track from the 2001 album To Record Only Water for Ten Days by John Frusciante
- Ramparts, seventh track from the 2003 album Zitilites by Danish Rock Band Kashmir
- Rampart Casino at The Resort at Summerlin
- Rampart General Hospital, the fictional hospital of the Emergency! television series
- Apache Rampart module, a module from the Apache Software Foundation for Web Services security
- Rampart High School, a Unitarian School of Excellence located in Colorado Springs, Colorado
See also Ramparts
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abatis, abutment, advanced work,
arc-boutant, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain,
bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement,
barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam,
boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall,
buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress, buttress pier,
buttressing,
casemate,
cheval-de-frise, circumvallation,
cofferdam, contravallation,
counterscarp,
curtain, dam, defence, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, flying buttress,
fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, guard, hanging buttress,
hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jutty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pier, pier buttress, portcullis, postern gate,
ravelin, redan, redoubt, retaining wall,
roadblock, rock-fill
dam, sally port, scarp,
sconce, seawall, security, shoulder, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, stronghold, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work