Fort

Fort

1. A surname.
2. A district of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

• St Fort

• TofR, frot

From fort (“fort, fortress”). As a district of Colombo, from serving as the site of the Dutch East India Company's Fort Colombo. As a Dutch village, originally the name of a farm first attested as Het Fort in 1851–1855.

See also Dutch Low Saxon Fört.

• IPA^(key): /fɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: Fort
• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Homophone: fort

Fort n

1. a village in De Wolden, Drenthe, Netherlands
2. a district of Colombo, Sri Lanka

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From French fort.

• IPA^(key): [foːɐ̯]

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• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: vor

Fort n (strong, genitive Forts, plural Forts)

1. fort (fortified defensive structure stationed with troops)

• “Fort” in Duden online
• “Fort” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache