This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. The fortified height or citadel of an ancient Greek city.

n. A raised area holding a building or cluster of buildings, especially in a pre-Columbian city.

n. A promontory (usually fortified with a citadel) forming the hub of many Grecian cities, and around which many were built for defensive purposes before and during the classical period; compare Acropolis.

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

n. The citadel of a Grecian city, usually the site of the original settlement, and situated on an eminence commanding the surrounding country.

n. the citadel in ancient Greek towns

"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"

citadel    bastion   

Heliopolis    Megalopolis    Papadopoulos    megalopolis    metropolis    necropolis   

ivory-tower    unbreathed    proselytising    hypocaust    seclude    indivisibility    statehouse    theorising    fishpond    ungratefulness