fort

From Middle English fort, from Middle French fort (“strong”) (adjective use is from Old French). Doublet of fortis and forte.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɔːt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /foət/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
• Homophones: forte (one pronunciation); fought (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

fort (plural forts)

1. A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
2. Any permanent army post.
3. (historical) An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
4. A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.

   Synonym: den

   The kids built a fort out of chairs and pillows.

• (fortified defensive structure): bastion, bulwark, bunker, castle, citadel, donjon, fortification, fortress, foxhole, keep, motte and bailey, rampart, stronghold
• (permanent army post): air base, armory, arsenal, base, camp, headquarters, supply depot, watchtower

• fortress
• fortification
• hold the fort

• Sranan Tongo: foto
  • Aukan: foto
  • Saramaccan: fóto

fort (third-person singular simple present forts, present participle forting, simple past and past participle forted)

1. To create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.

• TofR, frot

Inherited from Latin fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfɔrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfɔɾt]

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• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

fort (feminine forta, masculine plural forts, feminine plural fortes)

1. strong (forceful, powerful)

   Antonyms: feble, dèbil

2. strong (durable, resistant)
3. strong (potent, having a high degree of intensity)

• caixa forta
• enfortir
• fortament
• fortesa
• interacció forta

• força
• forçar
• fortalesa

fort

1. strongly

fort m (plural forts, feminine forta, feminine plural fortes)

1. a strong person
2. strength (the strongest part of something)
3. a fort or other defensive construction

fort

1. expresses approval of a punishment or misfortune suffered by another

• “fort”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fort”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “fort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

fort n (singular definite fortet, plural indefinite forter)

1. fort

• “fort” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /fɔrt/

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

fort n (plural forten, diminutive fortje n)

1. castle
2. fort

• Negerhollands: fort
• Skepi Creole Dutch: fort
• → Kwinti: foto
• → Papiamentu: fòrti, forti
• → Sranan Tongo: foto
  • → Kari'na: fo`to
  • → Lokono: forto
  • → Trió: poto

• trof

Inherited from Old French fort, from Latin fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis.

• IPA^(key): /fɔːʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ

fort (feminine forte, masculine plural forts, feminine plural fortes)

1. strong; powerful

   Arnie est fort. ― Arnie is strong.

   hommes forts ― strong men

2. (intransitive) (informal) skilled, proficient, successful, sometimes translated "good" (often used in reference to academic subjects) [with en]

   Je suis fort en anglais ― I am good at English

3. who can count on [with de]

   fort d'une solide expérience ― based on solid experience

• ferme
• grand
• gros
• robuste

• faible

fort

1. strongly
2. much, a lot
   • 2001, Rilou Vinçotte, Le Funambule, →ISBN, page 141:

     Alors on ferme les yeux, on a fort envie de quelque chose et on se l'offre.

     So we close our eyes, we really fancy something and we're going to take it.

3. (intensifier, when preceding certain adjectives and adverbs) very

   Je lui parle fort souvent. ― I speak with her very often.

   • 2023, Fabcaro, Didier Conrad, L'iris blanc [Asterix and the White Iris] (Asterix), Vanves: Hachette, →ISBN, page 26:

     À la gaaaaarde ! Deux individus fort courtois quoique turbulents ont pénétré dans le camp !

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• As an intensifying adverb in the sense of very, fort is synonymous but not always interchangeable with très and the similarly limited bien.

• avoir fort à faire

• force
• fortement
• fortifier
• renforcer

fort m (plural forts)

1. a fort

• forteresse
• fortification

• “fort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Middle High German vort, Old High German forth, Proto-Germanic *furþą, compare English forth, Dutch voort.

• IPA^(key): [fɔɐ̯t]

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fort

1. away
2. gone
3. going on, continuing

• fortkommen
• in einem fort
• usf.

• Fortbildung, Fortgang, Fortlaufen, Fortschritt, Fortzug

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

Akin to Italian forte and French fort, from Latin fortis.

fort

1. strong

• IPA^(key): [fɔʀt]

fort

1. away, gone

wäit fort

1. far away

From Old French fort.

fort m (feminine singular forte, masculine plural fors, feminine plural fortes)

1. strong

• → English: fort
• French: fort

From Old French fort, from Latin fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-.

fort m

1. strong

• fortement (“strongly”)

fort m (plural forts)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey, military, etc.) fort

• IPA^(key): /fuʈ/

From Middle Low German vort.

fort (comparative fortere, superlative fortest)

1. fast, quick (adverb), quickly

From French fort.

fort n (definite singular fortet, indefinite plural fort or forter, definite plural forta or fortene)

1. (military) a fort

• “fort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German vort.

• IPA^(key): /furt/

fort (indefinite singular fort, definite singular and plural forte, comparative fortare, indefinite superlative fortast, definite superlative fortaste)

1. quick

• snøgg

• treg
• sakte

fort

1. quickly

• snøgt

• tregt
• sakte

From French fort.

• IPA^(key): /fɔrt/

fort n (definite singular fortet, indefinite plural fort, definite plural forta)

1. fortress

• kystfort

• “fort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

fort

1. away

• Altniederfränkischer Psalm 18

From Latin fortis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

fort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fort or forte)

1. strong
   • late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 354, lines 67–70:

     La nef ert fort e belle e grande,
     bone cum cele k'ert markande.
     De plusurs mers chargee esteit,
     en Engleterre curre devait.

     The ship was strong and beautiful and big,
     good like a merchant's ship
     loaded with lots of different type of merchandise
     ready to set sail to England.

fort

1. strongly

• force
• forment
• forteresce

• → English: fort
• Middle French: fort
  • French: fort

fort

1. second-person singular of for

   on you

• Irish: ort
• Manx: ort
• Scottish Gaelic: ort

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: fort

Perhaps borrowed from German Fort or French fort.

fort m inan

1. (military) fort, fortress (fortified defensive structure stationed with troops)

   Synonyms: barbakan, koszary, twierdza

Borrowed from German fort.

fort

1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) away! (leave from here!)

   Synonym: precz

fort (not comparable)

1. (Wieleń, Chełmno-Dobrzyń) still

   Synonym: ciągle

• fort in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fort in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “fort”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 302
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “fort”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 33

Borrowed from French fort.

fort n (plural forturi)

1. fort, fortification

Attested since 1609 according to Nationalencyklopedins Ordbok, from Middle Low German fôrt (“away, further, forward”), which is used adverbially (forts) with the same meaning in Low German. Related to för (“fore”), före (“before”) and forsla (“transport, carry, haul”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊʈ/

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fort (comparative fortare, superlative fortast)

1. quickly/quick, fast

   Synonym: snabbt

• fart
• fort-
• forta
• fortkörning

Attested since 1651 according to Nationalencyklopedins Ordbok. From French fort.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔʈ/

fort n

1. a fort

• Permanent (stone) fortifications in Europe are called fästning, while fort (and skans) is used for less permanent (earth and wood) structures and for forts in America.

• fortifiera
• fortifikation

• fort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)