"citadel" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsɪtədəl/, /ˈsɪtədɛl/ Audio: en-us-citadel.ogg Forms: citadels [plural]
Etymology: From French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin cīvitās. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|citadelle}} French citadelle, {{der|en|it|cittadella}} Italian cittadella, {{der|en|la|cīvitās}} Latin cīvitās Head templates: {{en-noun}} citadel (plural citadels)
  1. A strong fortress that sits high above a city. Categories (topical): Buildings Translations (a strong fortress that sits high above a city): مَعْقِل (maʕqil) [masculine] (Arabic), միջնաբերդ (miǰnaberd) (Armenian), tsitati [feminine] (Aromanian), grãditã [feminine] (Aromanian), цытадэ́ль (cytadélʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), цитаде́ла (citadéla) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ciutadella [feminine] (Catalan), 堡壘 (Chinese Mandarin), 堡垒 (bǎolěi) (Chinese Mandarin), citadela [feminine] (Czech), citadel [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), citadelo (Esperanto), altaĵo (Esperanto), tsitadel (Estonian), sitadelli (Finnish), citadelle [feminine] (French), ციტადელი (ciṭadeli) (Georgian), Zitadelle [feminine] (German), ακρόπολη (akrópoli) [feminine] (Greek), מְצוּדָה (metzudá) [feminine] (Hebrew), citadella (Hungarian), fellegvár (Hungarian), cittadella [feminine] (Italian), 城塞 (jōsai) (alt: じょうさい) (Japanese), 성채 (seongchae) (Korean), arx (Latin), citadele [feminine] (Latvian), citadelė [feminine] (Lithuanian), цитадела (citadela) [feminine] (Macedonian), tihi (Maori), toitoi (Maori), ارك (erk) (Ottoman Turkish), ارگ (arg) (Persian), کلات (kalât) (Persian), cytadela [feminine] (Polish), cidadela [feminine] (Portuguese), citadelă [feminine] (Romanian), cetate (Romanian), цитаде́ль (citadɛ́lʹ) [feminine] (Russian), кре́пость (krépostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), цитадела [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), citadela [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), citadela [feminine] (Slovak), citadela [feminine] (Slovene), ciudadela [feminine] (Spanish), alcázar [masculine] (Spanish), citadell [neuter] (Swedish), moog (Tagalog), цитаде́ль (cytadélʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), ark (Uzbek), thành luỹ (Vietnamese), thành trì (Vietnamese), thành quách (Vietnamese)
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  2. (sometimes figurative) A stronghold or fortified place. Tags: figuratively, sometimes Translations (a stronghold or fortified place): kala [feminine] (Albanian), fortesë [feminine] (Albanian), مَعْقِل (maʕqil) [masculine] (Arabic), قَلْعَة (qalʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), قِلْعَة (qilʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), цытадэ́ль (cytadélʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), цитаде́ла (citadéla) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ciutadella [feminine] (Catalan), 城堡 (chéngbǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), citadela [feminine] (Czech), citadel [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), linnoitus (Finnish), linnake (Finnish), citadelle [feminine] (French), Zitadelle [feminine] (German), cittadella [feminine] (Italian), 城塞 (jōsai) (alt: じょうさい) (Japanese), 성채 (seongchae) (Korean), arx (Latin), цитадела (citadela) [feminine] (Macedonian), حصن (hısn) (Ottoman Turkish), cytadela [feminine] (Polish), cidadela [feminine] (Portuguese), citadelă [feminine] (Romanian), fortificație [feminine] (Romanian), cetate [feminine] (Romanian), цитаде́ль (citadɛ́lʹ) [feminine] (Russian), кре́пость (krépostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), цитадела [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), citadela [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), citadela [feminine] (Slovak), citadela [feminine] (Slovene), hisar (Turkish), цитаде́ль (cytadélʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), thành trì (Vietnamese), chadarnle [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-citadel-en-noun--uiqM1FI Disambiguation of 'a stronghold or fortified place': 7 88 1 5
  3. An armoured portion of a warship, housing important equipment.
    Sense id: en-citadel-en-noun-CkvkUrmJ Categories (other): Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 39 8 13 41
  4. A Salvation Army meeting place.
    Sense id: en-citadel-en-noun-VE7K4aIf Categories (other): Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 39 8 13 41
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fortress, bastion, stronghold, bulwark

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Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "A strong fortress that sits high above a city."
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          "city",
          "city"
        ]
      ]
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269:",
          "text": "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[…]",
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        }
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        "(sometimes figurative) A stronghold or fortified place."
      ],
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        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Lincoln P. Paine, Warships of the World to 1900:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      ],
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        [
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          "armour"
        ],
        [
          "warship",
          "warship"
        ]
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    },
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      "glosses": [
        "A Salvation Army meeting place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Salvation Army",
          "Salvation Army"
        ],
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          "meeting place",
          "meeting place"
        ]
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɪtədəl/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɪtədɛl/"
    },
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    {
      "word": "fortress"
    },
    {
      "word": "bastion"
    },
    {
      "word": "stronghold"
    },
    {
      "word": "bulwark"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "maʕqil",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مَعْقِل"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "miǰnaberd",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "միջնաբերդ"
    },
    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tsitati"
    },
    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grãditã"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "cytadélʹ",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цытадэ́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "citadéla",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитаде́ла"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ciutadella"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "堡壘"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bǎolěi",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "堡垒"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "citadel"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "citadelo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "altaĵo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "tsitadel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "sitadelli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ciṭadeli",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "ციტადელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zitadelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "akrópoli",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ακρόπολη"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "metzudá",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "מְצוּדָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "citadella"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "fellegvár"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cittadella"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じょうさい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jōsai",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "城塞"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seongchae",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "성채"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "arx"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadele"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadelė"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "citadela",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитадела"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "tihi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "toitoi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "erk",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "ارك"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "arg",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "ارگ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kalât",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "کلات"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cytadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cidadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadelă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "cetate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "citadɛ́lʹ",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитаде́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "krépostʹ",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кре́пость"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитадела"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ciudadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "alcázar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "citadell"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "moog"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "cytadélʹ",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитаде́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "ark"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "thành luỹ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "thành trì"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
      "word": "thành quách"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kala"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fortesë"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "maʕqil",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مَعْقِل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qalʕa",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "قَلْعَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qilʕa",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "قِلْعَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "cytadélʹ",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цытадэ́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "citadéla",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитаде́ла"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ciutadella"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chéngbǎo",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "城堡"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "citadel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "linnoitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "linnake"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zitadelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cittadella"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じょうさい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jōsai",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "城塞"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seongchae",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "성채"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "arx"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "citadela",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитадела"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "hısn",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "حصن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cytadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cidadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadelă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fortificație"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cetate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "citadɛ́lʹ",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитаде́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "krépostʹ",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кре́пость"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитадела"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "citadela"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "hisar"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "cytadélʹ",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цитаде́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "word": "thành trì"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chadarnle"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "citadel"
  ],
  "word": "citadel"
}

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