A prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution.

plural of bastille

A prison or jail. / Confusion of bastille with bastion (bulwark).

To confine as though in a bastille; to imprison.

simple past tense and past participle of bastille

Obsolete form of bastille.

plural of bastile

present participle of bastille

The French national holiday celebrated on 14 July each year. It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the Fête de la Fédération was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation".