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   4 meanings: 1. a stronghold; fortress 2. the state or quality of being firm or secure 3. the ability of a dye to remain.... Click for more definitions.

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   What does fastness mean?

   • A fastness is a place, such as a castle, which is considered safe because it is difficult to reach or easy to defend against attack. They could have withdrawn into the mountain fastness of Eryri. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. 3. Collins English Dictionary.

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   What does fastness mean in music?

   • The fastness or slowness of a musical selection. The highness or lowness of a musical selection. (usually and older sister, sidekick in an operatic story. a male singing voice of medium compass between bass and tenor.

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   What does fast mean?

   • (of a track surface) very hard. quickly, swiftly, or rapidly. in quick succession: Events followed fast upon one another to the crisis. tightly; firmly: to hold fast. soundly: fast asleep. in a wild or dissipated way. ahead of the correct or announced time. Archaic. close; near: fast by.

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   What does fasting mean?

   • 1. To abstain from food, beyond the usual time; to omit to take the usual meals, for a time; as, to fast a day or a week. 2. To abstain from food voluntarily, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, sorrow and affliction. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2Sam. 12.

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   What does the noun fastness mean? There are 11 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun fastness, five of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. fastness has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. fortification (Old English) literature (Middle English) politics (Middle ...

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   a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens

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   a place that is thought to be safe because it is difficult to get to or easy to defend synonym stronghold. a mountain fastness; The enemy retreated to their fastness in the mountains.

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   A complete guide to the word "FASTNESS": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.

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   fastness From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English fastness fast‧ness / ˈfɑːstnəs $ ˈfæst- / noun [ countable ] literary SAFE a place that is safe because it is difficult to reach SYN stronghold mountain fastnesses Examples from the Corpus fastness • And whom, casually, Thorfinn had now brought south from his fastness to greet ...