Noun
Millionaires built their castles along the lake.
the implacable attackers placed the castle under a prolonged siege
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Noun
Each dungeon encounter takes about an hour, along with trips back to the castle to rest and resupply with a few optional encounters out in the wilderness.—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 The building, built in 1886, is known colloquially as the Stone Castle by the Sea on account of the fact that it’s built like a small castle, turrets and all.—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
The proactive Axar Patel hit an aggressive 27 before being castled by Nathan Ellis.—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for castle
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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