Word: bastilles
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: ba
stilles
Definition: Plural of bastille; a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
Morphemes:
Affix: bastille
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To confine as though in a bastille; to imprison.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: bastille
Language: fr
Decoded: bastille
PoS: Noun
Meaning: fortress
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).