citadel
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citadel
- /ˈsɪtədəl/
- /ˈsɪtədɛl/
Where it comes from
From French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin cīvitās.
noun citadels
- A strong fortress that sits high above a city. 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.
- A stronghold or fortified place. 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[…]
- An armoured portion of a warship, housing important equipment. 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.
- A Salvation Army meeting place.
Similar: fortress, bastion, stronghold, bulwark
