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cas⋅tle

  [kas-uhl, kah-suhl] noun, verb, -tled, -tling.
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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, esp. one, with high walls and towers, that imitates the form of a medieval castle.
5. any place providing security and privacy: It may be small, but my home is my castle.
6. Chess. 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.
–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.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE castel < L castellum castellum

Related forms:
cas⋅tle⋅like, adjective

Synonyms:
1. fortress, citadel. 4. palace, château.
Sarum : The Novel
Edward Rutherfurd's epic saga 10,000 years of England's history
www.EdwardRutherfurd.com

Cas⋅tle

  [kas-uhl, kah-suhl]
–noun
Irene (Foote), 1893–1969, born in the U.S., and her husband and partner Vernon (Vernon Castle Blythe), 1887–1918, born in England, U.S. ballroom dancers.

Castle, The

 
–noun
German, Das Schloss), a novel (1926) by Franz Kafka.
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cas·tle   (kās'əl)   
n.  

    1. A large fortified building or group of buildings with thick walls, usually dominating the surrounding country.

    2. A fortified stronghold converted to residential use.

    3. A large ornate building similar to or resembling a fortified stronghold.

  2. A place of privacy, security, or refuge.

  3. Games See rook2.

v.   cas·tled, cas·tling, cas·tles

v.   intr. Games
To move the king in chess from its own square two empty squares to one side and then, in the same move, bring the rook from that side to the square immediately past the new position of the king.
v.   tr.

  1. To place in or as if in a castle.

  2. Games To move (the king in chess) by castling.


[Middle English castel, from Old English and from Norman French, both from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum; see kes- in Indo-European roots.]
Cas·tle   (kās'əl)   
British-born dancer who together with his wife, Irene Foote Castle (1893-1969), gained recognition for innovative dancing.
rook 2   (rŏŏk)   
n.   Abbr. R
A chess piece that may move in a straight line over any number of empty squares in a rank or file. Also called castle.

[Middle English rok, from Old French roc, from Arabic ruḫḫ, from Persian.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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" is from Ar. 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. Castile the medieval Sp. kingdom, is from L. castellum, with reference to the many forts there during the Moorish wars. 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Castle

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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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