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noun
1.
a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
2.
the chief and strongest part of the fortifications of a medieval city.
3.
a strongly fortified, permanently garrisoned stronghold.
4.
a large and stately residence, especially one, with high walls and towers, that imitates the form of a medieval castle.
5.
EXPANDany place providing security and privacy: It may be small, but my home is my castle.
6.
COLLAPSEChess. the rook.
verb (used with object)
7.
to place or enclose in or as in a castle.
8.
Chess. to move (the king) in castling.
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Castle
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verb (used without object) Chess.
9.
to move the king two squares horizontally and bring the appropriate rook to the square the king has passed over.
10.
(of the king) to be moved in this manner.
Related forms
cas·tle·like, adjective
un·cas·tled, adjective
Synonyms
1. fortress, citadel. 4. palace, château.
1. fortress, citadel. 4. palace, château.
Example Sentences
- Friends built two faux castle turrets over the bunker's escape hatches.
- Superhero cakes, fantasy castle cakes, biplane cakes.
- The fairy castle decor provides a magical setting for story times featuring costumed characters.
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Castle, The
noun
(German, Das Schloss), a novel (1926) by Franz Kafka.
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| castle (ˈkɑːsəl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a fortified building or set of buildings, usually permanently garrisoned, as in medieval Europe |
| 2. | any fortified place or structure |
| 3. | a large magnificent house, esp when the present or former home of a nobleman or prince |
| 4. | the citadel and strongest part of the fortifications of a medieval town |
| 5. | chess another name for rook |
| —vb | |
| 6. | chess to move (the king) two squares laterally on the first rank and place the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side (castling short) or the queen's side (castling long) |
| [C11: from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum fort] | |
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Word Origin & History
castle
late O.E. castel, from O.N.Fr. castel, from L. castellum "fortified village," dim. of castrum "fort;" cognate with O.Ir. cather, Welsh caer "town" (and perhaps related to castrare "cut off"). This word had come to O.E. as ceaster and formed the -caster and -chester in place names. Sp. alcazar "castle"
EXPANDis from Arabic al-qasr, from L. castrum. The move in chess is recorded under this name from 1656. In early bibles, castle was used to translate Gk. kome "village," causing much confusion. Castles in Spain translated a 14c. Fr. term (the imaginary castles sometimes stood in Asia or Albania) and probably reflects the hopes of landless knights to establish themselves abroad.
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Bible Dictionary
Castle definition
a military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. The "castle" into which the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.
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