0 something that keeps or defends a belief or a way of life that is disappearing or threatened: --
British public schools are regarded as one of the last bastions of upper-class privilege.
The ownership of property by as many people as possible is one of the main bastions of liberty.
However, we must take care lest those areas become bastions of middle-class activity.
How can anyone believe that these highly sensitive bastions of our heritage can be left to the unqualified element of the private sector?
Now, when the world is exhausted, may seem to them an opportunity to seize and fortify bastions against foreign aggression.
One of the great bastions of the country has fallen.
I am speaking only of the bastions of the bridge.
They do not want interference with business or directorships or the bastions of power which they hold at the moment.
There are other bastions of democracy in this country.