Noun
Millionaires built their castles along the lake.
the implacable attackers placed the castle under a prolonged siege
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Gaze out at the last light overlooking the loch or the illuminated 13th-century castle below.—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2024 The family has extensively renovated the castle and restored numerous gardens.—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 7 June 2024
Verb
For example, pawns could not move two squares on their first turn, and there was no similar rule for castling.—Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 27 May 2023 This is the real point of the combination as now Black will not be able to castle and White can pretty much at his leisure, build up an attack.—Chris Chase, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2018 See all Example Sentences for castle
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English castel, from Old English, from Old French & Latin; Old French dialect (Norman-Picard) castel, from Latin castellum fortress, diminutive of castrum fortified place; perhaps akin to Latin castrare to castrate
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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