Fortress is valid Scrabble Word

Is fortress a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is fortress valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for FORTRESS in dictionary:

VERB:

to strengthen with a fortress
To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
protect with or as if with a fortress

NOUN:

a military stronghold, especially a strongly fortified town.
a person or thing not susceptible to outside influence or disturbance
large fort or fortified town
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
a fortified defensive structure

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to fortify

Words related to FORTRESS

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Words that contain FORTRESS

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How to use FORTRESS in a sentence

It was but the affair of a day to the intrepid citizens to attack the fortress of Ecluse, carry it by assault, and take prisoner the old count of Namur.
On this side there stood a large tower, like a fortress.
There was quite a little town upon the island itself, besides the fortress or castle built there to defend the place.
The last days of his life at Fortress Monroe were doubtless also the happiest.
The brave Philadelphia lads still hold the little fortress, and have occasional skirmishes with wandering bands.
And at a distance of six miles, as you approach from Paris along the valley of the Marne, it has more the appearance of a fortress than a church.
Pendennis is a mere fortress, though there are some habitations in it, too, and some at a small distance near the seaside, but not of any great consideration.
Nennius applies the very similar name of Cair Legeion to Exeter, still in his time a Damnonian or West Welsh fortress.
A brick fortress defended it from the incursions of the Bedouin, and beside it the temple of the god of the dead reared its naked walls.
And the Romans besieged the fortress of Zerboule for three days.

It was a fortress of Castruccio Castracani, the birthplace of a great Pope.
There were only eight souls all told in the log fortress now.
As I look back upon it now it seems, without any extravagance at all, the very heart of the fortress of the enemy.
Fabius was totally defeated, and compelled to shut himself up in the fortress of Cabira.
The trenches were opened before this fortress on the eleventh day of February, by the Conde de las Torres, at the head of twenty thousand men.
Marmont was at this time making himself strong in the north, and was blockading both the Spanish fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo and the fortress of Almeida.
The capture of this strong fortress made a great impression upon the Affghans.
It was a delightful old town, and from its commanding position on a rock has been used as a fortress more or less since the days of Julius Caesar.
One, south of the Kasr-esh-Shama, is called Der Bablun, thus preserving the name of the ancient fortress.
Beneath the fortress many were slain and made prisoners.
Each convent, each house, formed a separate fortress.
Never before was there such an instance of a whole city converted into a fortress, the thickness of the ramparts being here practically measured by the whole width of the city.
To the fortress of the sunlight, To the lighter halls of moonlight, To the little gate of copper.
The armistice was concluded on the 11th, and on the 12th Napoleon entered Valetta, full of amazement at the might of the fortress he had so easily captured.
At that same place had grown up a dwelling with a fortress, and there was the brown bull that Meave heard the report of.
None are permitted to enter the fortress of Gibraltar, without permission from the governor, or a passport.
We found this fortress to consist of an extensive plain on the summit of a perpendicular rock, the entrance to which did not exceed twice the size of the mouth of an oven.
The plan, which was matured during May and June, was to reach the frontier fortress of Montmedy by way of Chalons, and to take refuge with the army on the frontier.
In the island of Mutiel they have a garrisoned fortress.
In the island of Tidore they have a garrisoned fortress, and his Majesty has another.

Similar words containing FORTRES without suffix s

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