Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fortified height or citadel of an ancient Greek city.
- noun A raised area holding a building or cluster of buildings, especially in a pre-Columbian city.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The citadel of a Grecian city, usually the site of the original settlement, and situated on an eminence commanding the surrounding country.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
promontory (usuallyfortified with acitadel ) forming thehub of manyGrecian cities, and around which many were built fordefensive purposes before and during the classical period; compareAcropolis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the citadel in ancient Greek towns
Etymologies
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Examples
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I presume the city then occupied the same position as at present, on a plain surrounding the rocky acropolis, which is so striking and picturesque a feature as to justify the enthusiasm of the
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While, therefore, the majority of the Indian workmen were kept employed at the cemeteries, Kopeli, the Snake chief, a man in whom I have great confidence, was assigned to the excavation of a series of rooms at the highest point of the ruin, previously referred to as the acropolis
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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The one thing I remembered about the acropolis was the story of the siege by the Persians.
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Below the complex of the acropolis is the theater of Dionysis and the Odeum which still has summer concerts, though not at this time.
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For if we abolish the acropolis which is in the city, can we abolish also that of fever, and that of beautiful women?
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Can we, in a word, abolish the acropolis which is in us and cast out the tyrants within us, whom we have dally over us, sometimes the same tyrants, at other times different tyrants?
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During this week, we discovered a third defense system down slope from the fortification wall, part from the normal city wall and the circuit wall surrounding the Zencirli Tepe (the "acropolis" with a height of 1784 m.a.s.l.).
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The aim of this year's mapping activities is to supplement the topographical and archaeological map of Tepe Düzen with observations on the south slopes of the Zincirli Tepe (the "acropolis" of the site), and the area west and south of the zone we mapped last year.
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-- The discussion on twin cities is intended to draw attention to its West Asian parallels, the "acropolis" or "ark" city, as well as to the theories on the difference between Western and Asian cities (M. Weber) and the specific type of cities in "dual societies" (H. Boeke).p. 34: This is a modified form of the H. Shih theory.
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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-- Almost every Greek city has its own formidable citadel, its own "acropolis," -- for "citadel" is really all this word conveys.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903
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