Word Meanings - ACROPOLIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACROPOLIS)

• Citadel
• Fortress
• castle
• stronghold
• acropolis

Related words: (words related to ACROPOLIS)

• CASTLEWARD
  See CASTLEGUARD
• CASTLE
  1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh
• CASTLET
  A small castle. Leland.
• CASTLERY
  The government of a castle. Blount.
• STRONGHOLD
  A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
• FORTRESS
  A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. Syn. -- Fortress, Fortification, Castle, Citadel. A fortress is constructed for military purposes
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
• CASTLED
  Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
• CITADEL
  A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.
• ACROPOLIS
  The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
• CASTLE-GUARD
  A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. 3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
• UNCASTLE
  To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
• COMFORTRESS
  A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.
• FORECASTLE
  A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel,