citadel
citadel
Definition
cita·del (sit′ə del′, -dəl)
noun
- a fortress on a commanding height for defense of a city
- a fortified place; stronghold
- a place of safety; refuge
Etymology: < It cittadella, dim. of cittade, city < L civitas, citizenship: see city
citadel
Synonyms
citadel
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- fortify: It is protected by a fortified citadel built on a rocky promontory.
- storm: He's not, setting out afresh in his late fifties, intent on storming the citadels of yesteryear.
- build: There they built a citadel, a sacred round tower on Rhode Island.
- visit: Further south we visit the imperial citadel of Chan Chan.
- take: It would seem that we took the citadel by breech in 1761.
- have: Gezer had only a citadel surrounded by a casemate wall covering a small area.
Converse of subject
- crown: Day 1: arrival in Forcalquier, a medieval market town crowned by a citadel which affords sweeping views over the surrounding countryside.
Adjective modifier
- walled: There is a Neolithic walled citadel with three rings of walls.
- medieval: The mysterious Dracula House is situated inside the walls of this medieval citadel.
- ancient: Figure 2: View of Hasankeyf from the top of the ancient citadel, looking downstream toward the proposed location of the Ilisu dam.
- old: On the southeastern tip of the walled city, the old citadel stands on a hill.
- large: Part of remains of the large citadel built around mid 1650s.
- great: The Uganda Virus Research Institute is possibly Africa's greatest citadel of HIV studies.
Modifies a noun
- wall: Parts of the citadel walls appear to have late antique remains at their base.
Noun used with modifier
- century: The old town is sited on an imposing 9th century citadel, built on top of a peninsula overlooking the Mediteranean Sea.
Preposition: of
- power: We have been too busy making the world a better, richer place to spend time infiltrating the citadels of power.
- science: Once allowed into the citadel of science, runs the argument, subjectivity would turn all research into glorified Lit.
- music: Yet in 1933 Wagner's extremist program became state policy in the citadels of classical music.
- grace: The acceptance of the dark force in nature allows us to build citadels of grace.
Preposition: by
- breech: It would seem that we took the citadel by breech in 1761.
citadel Quotes
Coketownugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in.
Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel. Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of, many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea, struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions.
