castellated

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
The country houses of the nobility and landed gentry were largely built or rebuilt in what was known as the castellated style.

View all »
Definitions (6)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. adjective Furnished with turrets and battlements in the style of a castle.
  2. adjective Having a castle.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • The Grand Royal Palace, the semi-castellated residence of the Supreme King of Siam, with its roofs and spires pointed with what seem to be the horns of animals, towers pre-eminent over all the city. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • But I did get to Abbotsford, and was rejoiced to find it was not at all Cockney, not a Castle, but only in the half-castellated style of heaps of other houses in Scotland; the Grounds simply and broadly laid out before the windows, down to a field, down to the Tweed, with the woods which he left so little, now well aloft and flourishing, and I was glad. —  Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes
  • At the first corner of the latter stands a small semi-castellated edifice, with the colours of the canton on the window-shutters, which is now in some way occupied for public purposes, and which formerly was the residence of the bailli , or the local governor that Berne formerly sent to rule them in the name of the Burgerschaft. —  A Residence in France
  • Neither man nor beast threatened him in the solitude which brooded over the castellated isle of Xapur. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • It was in a venerable, half-castellated, ivy-grown manor-house, among avenues of ancient trees, where the light had first to struggle through the foliage before it fell on the narrow windows, in walls that were many feet in thickness. —  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
More examples »
 

Tags

castellated hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 51 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Medieval Latin castellātus, past participle of castellāre, to fortify as a castle, from Latin castellum, fort; see castle.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Middle Latin castellatus, past participle of castellare, furnish with turrets or battlements, fortify, from Latin castellum, a castle: see castle.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈkæstɛleɪtɛd/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

pyrolysis · brod · prints · Abilify · sexus

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence · spell it rite · britney