Bastion | Mean of bastion in English Dictionary

/ˈbæstʃən/

• Noun
• a place or system in which something (such as an old-fashioned idea) continues to survive
1. The neighborhood is considered by many to be the city's last liberal/conservative bastion. [=the only place left in the city where liberal/conservative ideas are still accepted]
2. a bastion of racial inequality [=a system in which people of different races still do not have equal rights]
3. bastions of democracy