donjon

1. 1.

   the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

   Synonymskeepdungeon

   Broaderstronghold

   NarrowerBlack Hole of Calcutta

   Part ofcastle

Other forms of donjon

plural

donjons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about donjon

What does donjon mean?

donjon means "the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress".

How many syllables are in donjon?

donjon has 2 syllables: don-jon. The stress falls on "don".

What is another word for donjon?

Close synonyms include keep, dungeon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is donjon a common word?

donjon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.