as in fortress
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
a massive stone citadel continues to command the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia
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In 1928, the original owners took over a hotel that was mere feet across one of the narrow cobblestone streets that make up the citadel and added 48, keeping the neo-Gothic style, including pretty leaded windows.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
Craig Proctor, the childhood friend who played Dungeons & Dragons with him, told me that Friedmann once showed him architectural floor plans for a citadel that Friedmann’s thief-rogue avatar would oversee.
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James Verini,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
Over the decades, its performers have danced on more than 400 sites worldwide including the Space Needle, the 11th-century Golconda citadel in India and Saudi Arabia’s Old Jeddah city.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2026
Climb the fortress trail to San Giovanni—a crumbling hilltop citadel that once guarded the city from Ottoman sieges—where the vistas stretch like a myth across fjord-like waters.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
Craig Proctor, the childhood friend who played Dungeons & Dragons with him, told me that Friedmann once showed him architectural floor plans for a citadel that Friedmann’s thief-rogue avatar would oversee.
—
James Verini,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
Over the decades, its performers have danced on more than 400 sites worldwide including the Space Needle, the 11th-century Golconda citadel in India and Saudi Arabia’s Old Jeddah city.
—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2026
Climb the fortress trail to San Giovanni—a crumbling hilltop citadel that once guarded the city from Ottoman sieges—where the vistas stretch like a myth across fjord-like waters.
—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for citadel
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Alexander the Great conquered it in 332 BCE after building a causeway to what had been considered an impregnable island fortress.
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Some, like France's Maginot Line, became border fortresses stretching for miles, while German coastal defenses sat on the cliffs of Normandy, requiring the Allies to take out with sea bombardments and direct infantry assaults.
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As a result, Democrats make inroads even on longtime local Republican strongholds.
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Morales has been entrenched in his coca-growing stronghold in the Chapare region since 2024 and has refused to appear before the courts.
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In it, Rocío, played by Rocío Molina, a leading light of the international flamenco vanguard, returns to her Ebro Delta home to attend the funeral of her mother, a bastion of traditional flamenco.
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Bored Lord and AceMo, longtime bastions of their respective coastal scenes, offer up two rumbling club heaters.
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By the Second World War, pillboxes had become standard defense fortifications.
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During Fascism, the first fortification works arose, but also roads, houses, schools, a hospital.
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The plan also urges African countries to preserve former slave forts and castles as memorial sites.
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Nolan and the cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, wielding heavy IMAX cameras, shot their picture across the Mediterranean and beyond, in caves, castles, beaches, black-sand wastes, and open water.
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The studio setting opened up sonic possibilities unavailable inside a fort.
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The plan also urges African countries to preserve former slave forts and castles as memorial sites.
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“Citadel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/citadel. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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