Citadel

//ˈsɪtədəl//

Synonyms for "citadel" (37 found)

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Translations

90 translations across 45 languages.

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Albanian

2 entries
  • fortesë noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • kala noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἀκρόπολις noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Arabic

4 entries
  • قَلْعَة noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • قِلْعَة noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • مَعْقِل noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • مَعْقِل noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Armenian

1 entries
  • միջնաբերդ noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Aromanian

2 entries
  • grãditã noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • tsitati noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Belarusian

2 entries
  • цытадэ́ль noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • цытадэ́ль noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • цитаде́ла noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • цитаде́ла noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Catalan

2 entries
  • ciutadella noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • ciutadella noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 城堡 noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • 堡壘 /堡垒 noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Czech

2 entries
  • citadela noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • citadela noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Dutch

2 entries
  • citadel noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • citadel noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • altaĵo noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • citadelo noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Estonian

1 entries
  • tsitadel noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Finnish

3 entries
  • linnake noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • linnoitus noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • sitadelli noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

French

2 entries
  • citadelle noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • citadelle noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ციტადელი noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

German

2 entries
  • Zitadelle noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • Zitadelle noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Greek

1 entries
  • ακρόπολη noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • מְצוּדָה noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • citadella noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • fellegvár noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Italian

2 entries
  • cittadella noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • cittadella noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 城塞 noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • 城塞 noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Korean

2 entries
  • 성채 noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • 성채 noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Latin

2 entries
  • arx noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • arx noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Latvian

1 entries
  • citadele noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • citadelė noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • цитадела noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • цитадела noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Māori

2 entries
  • tihi noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • toitoi noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • ارك noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • حصن noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Persian

2 entries
  • ارگ noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • کلات noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Polish

2 entries
  • cytadela noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • cytadela noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • cidadela noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • cidadela noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Romanian

4 entries
  • cetate noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • cetate noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • citadelă noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • citadelă noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Russian

4 entries
  • кре́пость noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • кре́пость noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • цитаде́ль noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • цитаде́ль noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • citadela noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • citadela noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • цитадела noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • цитадела noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Slovak

2 entries
  • citadela noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • citadela noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Slovene

2 entries
  • citadela noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • citadela noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Spanish

2 entries
  • alcázar noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • ciudadela noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Swedish

1 entries
  • citadell noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • moog noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Turkish

2 entries
  • hisar noun (a stronghold or fortified place)
  • iç kale noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • цитаде́ль noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • цитаде́ль noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • ark noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)

Vietnamese

4 entries
  • thành luỹ noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • thành quách noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • thành trì noun (a strong fortress that sits high above a city)
  • thành trì noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Welsh

1 entries
  • chadarnle noun (a stronghold or fortified place)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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What is out of the lips, is out of the citadel.

Source: tatoeba (2570417)

Those indignant winds grumble with a loud murmuring around the confines of the mountain; Aeolus sits in his high citadel, holding his scepter, and he soothes their spirits and tempers their rages: if he did not do this, they would surely snatch away seas and lands and the deep heaven itself, and sweep them off through the windy sky.

Source: tatoeba (6624751)

Hotly the Tyrians are at work. These draw / the bastions' lines, roll stones and trench the ground; / or build the citadel.

Source: tatoeba (6789613)

"Then first Thymaetes cries aloud, to go / and through the gates the monstrous horse convey / and lodge it in the citadel. E'en so / his fraud or Troy's dark fates were working for our woe."

Source: tatoeba (6804515)

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