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citadel
/ˈsɪtədəl/
noun 4
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, below, central, grim, sacred, understood
VERB + CITADEL
access, build, climbed, defend, intrenched, look, see, storm
CITADEL + NOUN
110-pdr, apartment, haste
PREP.
down, from, on, out, towards, up, with, within
ADV.
also, essentially
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
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[…]
3
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.
4
A Salvation Army meeting place.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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
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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 u
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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. br
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What is out of the lips, is out of the citadel.
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Hotly the Tyrians are at work. These draw / the bastions' lines, roll stones and trench the ground; / or build the citadel.
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But heedless, blind with frenzy, one and all / up to the sacred citadel we strain, / and there the ill-omened prodigy install.
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