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What does Acropolis mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Acropolis? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. The Athenian Acropolis. (Compare acropolis.)
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Abutting the glacis of the Acropolis at Athens is the great theatre of Dionysis.
The acanthus leaf was the inspiration of the architect who built the Acropolis.
The only entranceway to the Acropolis at its western end, the Propylaea was built of Pentelic marble, with some details of black Eleusian stone.
At Acropolis, near Athens, Minerva's statue formerly fell from the empyreal heaven.
The base of its pedestal is still shown on the Acropolis between the propyla and the Erechtheum.
You can see the Parthenon from anywhere in Athens, gleaming whitely on the Acropolis.

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