different between stronghold vs donjon

English

Etymology

From Middle English strong-hold, strong-holde, stranghalde (equivalent to strong +? hold), from Middle English strong (“having physical strength, sturdy, strong; built to withstand assaults, fortified”) (from Old English strang, strong (“strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *streng?- (“stiff, tight”)) + Middle English h?ld (“grasp, grip; control, possession, rule”) (from Old English).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st???h??ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st????ho?ld/
• Hyphenation: strong?hold

Noun

stronghold (plural strongholds)

1. A place built to withstand attack; a fortress.

   Synonyms: bastion, bulwark, fastness
2. (figuratively) A place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea.

Translations

References

Further reading

• fortification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Old French donjon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?nd??n/

Noun

donjon (plural donjons)

1. The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 132:

     [...] the prison fortress called Qomr, a mound of yellowish brick rising up from the left back of the turbid river, in whose donjon by long tradition the warlord was obliged to lay his head.

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon, or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.

Translations

Related terms

• dungeon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French donjon, from Old French donjon, from Latin dungi?, from Frankish *dungij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?n???n/, [d??????], [d?n???n]
• Hyphenation: don?jon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

donjon m (plural donjons, diminutive donjonnetje n)

1. donjon, keep

Synonyms

• slottoren

French

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French donjon, dongon (“castle keep”), from Frankish *dungjo, *dunjon- (“dungeon, bower, underground cellar”), from Proto-Germanic *dungij?, *dung? (“enclosed space, vault, bower, treasury”).

Alternate etymology traces Old French donjon to Vulgar Latin *dominio, *dominionem (“lord's castle”), from Latin dominius, and possibly influenced by the above Germanic term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.???/

Noun

donjon m (plural donjons)

1. donjon, keep

Further reading

• “donjon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

donjon m (oblique plural donjons, nominative singular donjons, nominative plural donjon)

1. Alternative form of donjun

Romanian

Etymology

From French donjon

Noun

donjon n (plural donjoane)

1. donjon

Declension