Associations to the word «Bastille»

BASTILLE, proper noun. A prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution.

BASTILLE, noun. A castle tower, or fortified building; a small citadel or fortress.

BASTILLE, noun. A prison or jail.

BASTILLE DAY, proper noun. The French national holiday celebrated on 14 July each year. It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the Fête de la Fédération was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation".

BASTILLE, 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.

BASTILLE, noun. A jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner).