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cit·a·del    Audio Help   [sit-uh-dl, -uh-del] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a fortress that commands a city and is used in the control of the inhabitants and in defense during attack or siege.
2.any strongly fortified place; stronghold.
3.(formerly) a heavily armored structure on a warship, for protecting the engines, magazines, etc.
[Origin: 1580–90; < MF citadelle < OIt cittadella, equiv. to cittad(e) city + -ella -elle]
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Main Entry:  citadel
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  bastion, castle, fastness, fort, fortification, fortress, manor, stronghold, tower, acropolis
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Citadel, The-The Military College of South Carolina, at Charleston; state supported; chartered (1842) as The Citadel, opened 1843. From 1882 to 1910 it was named the South Carolina Military Academy. Cadets are subject to military regulations. The exclusion of women from the traditionally all-male corps of cadets was challenged in court in the mid-1990s, and a state-sponsored South Carolina Institute of Leadership for Women opened (1995) at Converse College, Spartanburg, S.C., as a parallel program for women. In 1996, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar program at the Virginia Military Institute was inadequate, The Citadel voted to admit women to the cadet corps, and in 1999 the first woman graduated from the school.

See study by C. S. Manegold (2000).

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