Definitions
a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
Word origin
From French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin cīvitās.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fortified stronghold”7 letters
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