bastilles

Meanings

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
• a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
• plural of bastille

Verb

• third-person singular simple present indicative of bastille

Synonyms

bastille, Bastille