How to pronounce bastion in British English
“bastion” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to bastion the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “bastion” in: all accents · American English (33 clips)
“bastion” in real sentences — British speakers
33 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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been a bastion of the middle classes.
The Scottish Parliament
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highlighted in my time in this place sport is becoming the Bastion of the middle class
The Scottish Parliament
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This House has been a great bastion and defender of human rights, but we will look
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “bastion”
Words one sound away from bastion — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of bastion. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.