fastness
fast nuhs
- n a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
- n the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
- n a strongly fortified defensive structure
- The Karakoram fastness of northern Kashmir is an area no men ever inhabited, and only a few had traversed, before Pakistani and Indian troops moved in to wage a bitter conflict .
- Tribesmen supporting the Imam poured out of their mountain fastness to launch a successful attack on Razeh, near the Saudi Arabian border.
- The Maoist guerrilla leader was a creature of myth no one knew what he looked like, or in which mountain fastness he hid, or quite how he and his fighters, ragtag and ill .