Bulwark vs. Rampart

Bulwarknoun

A defensive wall or rampart.

Rampartnoun

A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.

Bulwarknoun

A defense or safeguard.

Rampartnoun

A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.

Bulwarknoun

A breakwater.

Rampartnoun

That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.

Bulwarknoun

(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.

Rampartnoun

A steep bank of a river or gorge.

Bulwarknoun

(figurative) Any means of defence or security.

Rampartverb

To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.

Bulwarkverb

(transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.

Rampartnoun

That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.

Bulwarkverb

(transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.

Rampartnoun

A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.

Bulwarknoun

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

Rampartverb

To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.

‘Those grassy hills, those glittering dells,Proudly ramparted with rocks.’;

Bulwarknoun

That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.

‘The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense, . . . the floating bulwark of our island.’;

Rampartnoun

an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;

‘they stormed the ramparts of the city’; ‘they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down’;

Bulwarknoun

The sides of a ship above the upper deck, usually a fencelike structure around the deck.

Bulwarkverb

To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.

‘Of some proud city, bulwarked round and armedWith rising towers.’;

Bulwarknoun

an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;

‘they stormed the ramparts of the city’; ‘they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down’;

Bulwarknoun

a fence-like structure around a deck

Bulwarknoun

a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

Bulwarkverb

defend with a bulwark