"Bastille" meaning in All languages combined

See Bastille on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

IPA: /bæˈstiːl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɑː-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈbæstɪl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈbɑː-/ [Received-Pronunciation], [bæˈstɪəɫ] [Received-Pronunciation], /bæˈstil/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bastille.wav [Southern-England], En-au-bastille.ogg [Australia] Forms: the Bastille [canonical]
Rhymes: (one pronunciation) -iːl Etymology: Borrowed from French Bastille, from bastille (“fortress”): see further at the English entry bastille. The building was known in full as the Bastille Saint-Antoine, and was a former fortress used as a prison by the French monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Etymology templates: {{circa2|1790|short=1}} c. 1790, {{bor|en|fr|Bastille}} French Bastille, {{m|fr|bastille|t=fortress}} bastille (“fortress”), {{m|en|bastille}} bastille Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=the Bastille}} the Bastille
  1. A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution. Categories (place): France, Paris Derived forms: Bastille Day Related terms: bastille Translations (former fortress and prison in Paris, France): سَجْن اَلْبَاسْتِيل (sajn al-bastīl) [masculine] (Arabic), Բաստիլ (Bastil) (Armenian), 巴士底獄 (Chinese Mandarin), 巴士底狱 (Bāshìdǐ yù) (Chinese Mandarin), Bastilji (Finnish), Bastille [feminine] (French), バスティーユ牢獄 (Basutīyu-rōgoku) (Japanese), 바스티유 감옥 (Baseutiyu gamok) (Korean), Bastilha [feminine] (Portuguese), Bastilia [feminine] (Romanian), Басти́лия (Bastílija) [feminine] (Russian), Bastilla [feminine] (Spanish), Bastiljen (Swedish), Bastille (Turkish)

Proper name [French]

IPA: /bas.tij/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Ltrlg-Bastille.wav Forms: la Bastille [canonical, feminine]
Etymology: From bastille (“fortress”). Etymology templates: {{m|fr|bastille|t=fortress}} bastille (“fortress”) Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|f|head=la Bastille}} la Bastille f
  1. Bastille (“former prison”)
    Sense id: en-Bastille-fr-name-F2GNoZWG
  2. Parisian district around place de la Bastille, where the prison stood
    Sense id: en-Bastille-fr-name-~tKeD8hf Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: embastiller, embastillement

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Ltrlg-Bastille.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Ltrlg-Bastille.wav.ogg",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.