CITADEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does citadel mean? 

• CITADEL (noun)
  The noun CITADEL has 1 sense:

1. a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle

  Familiarity information: CITADEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITADEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bastion; citadel

Hypernyms ("citadel" is a kind of...):

fastness; stronghold (a strongly fortified defensive structure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "citadel"):

acropolis (the citadel in ancient Greek towns)

kremlin (citadel of a Russian town)

Instance hyponyms:

Kremlin (citadel of Moscow, housing the offices of the Russian government)

 Context examples 

It was someone within the citadel, and it was a woman.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was a deliberate attack on the mysticism of the Maeterlinck school—an attack from the citadel of positive science upon the wonder- dreamers, but an attack nevertheless that retained much of beauty and wonder of the sort compatible with ascertained fact.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With that he blew out his candle, put on a greatcoat, and set forth in the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the great Dr. Lanyon, had his house and received his crowding patients.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)