Citadel

Definitions

1. A strong fortress that sits high above a city.
2. A stronghold or fortified place.
   figuratively, sometimes
3. An armoured portion of a warship, housing important equipment.
4. A Salvation Army meeting place.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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[…]”

“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.”

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