citadel

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. figuratively,sometimes
    — 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.

词形变化

citadels plural

词汇关系

近义词
fortress bastion stronghold bulwark

词源

From French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin cīvitās.
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