English

Noun

citadel ‎(plural citadels)

1. A strong fortress that sits high above a city.
2. (sometimes figuratively) A stronghold or fortified place.
   • 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England (page 269)

     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 […]

Translations

Anagrams

• deltaic, dialect, edictal, lactide

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ci‧ta‧del

Etymology

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

Noun

citadel f, m ‎(plural citadellen or citadels, diminutive citadelletje n)

1. citadel

Anagrams

• dialect