Synonyms for citadel
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sit-uh-dl, -uh-del |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪt ə dl, -əˌdɛl |
Top 10 synonyms for citadel Other synonyms for the word citadel
Définition of citadel
Origin :- 1580s, "fortress commanding a city," from Middle French citadelle (15c.), from Italian cittadella, diminutive of Old Italian cittade "city" (Modern Italian citta), from Latin civitatem (nominative civitas; also source of Portuguese citadella, Spanish ciuadela; see city).
- noun top, tower
- We then would have pushed for Citadel Hill, which commanded Halifax.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- The general knew all about that, because his son was stationed in the Citadel.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- It was this that stormed the citadel of my hope, and drove me from even thinking of a God.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- In the citadel is also a mosque, now building by the order of the Pasha.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
- Once it was by the Gauls, as we have read, who captured all the city except the citadel.
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- In the town and the citadel they had eaten eight hundred horses.
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
- It was a shell, which had demolished a chimney in the Rue Sainte-Barbe, near the citadel.
- Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
- He seized the Citadel, and did by force what had been refused to his request.
- Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
- The example of the town, however, was not followed by the citadel.
- Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
- Follow me with your hoplites, and I will introduce you into the citadel.
- Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon
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