different between citadel vs breastwork

English

Etymology

From French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin c?vit?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t?d?l/, /?s?t?d?l/

Noun

citadel (plural citadels)

1. A strong fortress that sits high above a city.
2. (sometimes figuratively) A stronghold or fortified place.
   • 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England (page 269)

     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 […]

3. An armoured portion of a warship, housing important equipment.
   • 2000, Lincoln P. Paine, Warships of the World to 1900

     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.

4. A Salvation Army meeting place.

Translations

Anagrams

• dactile, deltaic, dialect, edictal, lactide

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowe from Middle French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin c?vit?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si.ta??d?l/
• Hyphenation: ci?ta?del
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

citadel f (plural citadellen or citadels, diminutive citadelletje n)

1. citadel

Anagrams

• dialect

English

Etymology

breast +? work

Pronunciation

Noun

breastwork (plural breastworks)

1. A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
2. (nautical) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
   • 1878, J. W. King, Report of Chief Engineer J. W. King, United States Navy On European Ships of War and Their Armament, Naval Administration and Economy, Marine Constructions and Appliances, Dockyards, etc., etc., Washington, p. 287, [2]

     The Independencia is a two-turreted, breastwork ship of 9,000 tons displacement. […] The central breastwork is 130 feet in length at the top of the belt, and extends to the upper deck, 11 feet above the water-line. This breastwork incloses the boiler and engine hatches, the scuttles to magazines and shell-rooms, the principal openings for ventilation, and the two turrets.

3. A parapet.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 2

     A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel. He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text:

4. (slang) Breast augmentation.

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