ようさい
Meanings
Noun
1. 外敵から防御するために、国境・海岸など戦略的に重要な場所に作った建造物、軍事施設。とりで。
Kanji used
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blockage
Pitch accent
うさい
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Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
fortified city; bastide
fortifying; fortification
sea fort; island fort
Examples (3 in total)
The fortress was in the enemy's hands.
It's a fort built to defend the town from invasion.
They built the walls of the fortress without using cement at all.