Synonyms of casbah

casbah

noun

variants also kasbah

as in alcazar

Related Words

• alcazar
• blockhouse
• bunker
• fortress
• fort
• citadel
• parapet
• castle
• garrison house
• dugout
• stronghold
• rampart
• fortification
• bastion
• bulwark
• breastwork
• earthwork
• battlement
• redoubt
• embattlement
• fastness
• hold

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of casbah

Soak up the sun at Plage d’Agadir in Morocco, and leave time to visit the city’s famous souk and kasbah ruins. — Melanie Van Zyl, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2026

Set the scene Arriving at Four Seasons Costa Palmas feels like driving toward a kasbah in Morocco—miles of stark desert stretch out on either side before the landscape suddenly opens to an oasis on the edge of the Sea of Cortez. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026

Dar Ahlam is a beautiful renovation and realization of a 200-year-old kasbah near Ouarzazate, at the gateway to the Sahara Desert. — Ann Abel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024

The views from the kasbah, nestled deep in the hills outside Marrakech, are uniformly spectacular. — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024

She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country. — Washington Post, 9 July 2021

The community’s salmon-pink palette was suggested by the rosy sandstone walls, and its hilltop clubhouse, introduced by a Middle Eastern-style water stair, was placed to overlook the villas like a casbah surveying so many riads. — Peter Haldeman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017