Citadel

Quick meaning: Citadel is a noun meaning A strong fortress that sits high above a city.

Meaning

A strong fortress that sits high above a city.

More Meanings

1. (sometimes figurative) A stronghold or fortified place.
2. An armoured portion of a warship, housing important equipment.
3. A Salvation Army meeting place.

Example Sentences

Twenty-two of these — eleven per broadside — were on the main deck within a central citadel, essentially an armor-protected box in the middle of the ship. Also within the citadel were four 110-pdr. breech-loaders.

In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.

Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]

Word Forms

• citadels

Synonyms for citadel

Depending on context, synonyms include fortress, bastion, stronghold, bulwark.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bastion, fortress, fort, stronghold, castle, bulwark.

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