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citadel

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cit·a·del  (st-dl, -dl)
n.
1. A fortress in a commanding position in or near a city.
2. A stronghold or fortified place; a bulwark.
[French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città, city, from Latin cvits; see city.]
citadel
Noun
a fortress in a city [Latin civitas]
Citadel a fortress; mole burrows at different levels; used figuratively.
Examples: citadel of mole burrows; of smuggling, 1774; of superstition, 1826.
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Noun1.citadelcitadel - a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
bastion
acropolis - the citadel in ancient Greek towns
kremlin - citadel of a Russian town
stronghold, fastness - a strongly fortified defensive structure
citadel
noun fortress, keep, tower, stronghold, bastion, fortification, fastness
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A French officer, returning from the advanced detachment, rode up to Murat and reported that the gates of the citadel had been barricaded and that there was probably an ambuscade there.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Away off, across the undulating Plain of Attica, could be seen a little square-topped hill with a something on it, which our glasses soon discovered to be the ruined edifices of the citadel of the Athenians, and most prominent among them loomed the venerable Parthenon.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
The brain is at least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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