Castle - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈkæsl|  American pronunciation of the word castle
Brit.  |ˈkɑːs(ə)l|  British pronunciation of the word castle

noun

- a large and stately mansion (syn: palace)
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard (syn: rook)
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook (syn: castling)

verb

- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

Extra examples

Millionaires built their castles along the lake.

...the implacable attackers placed the castle under a prolonged siege...

An Englishman's house is his castle.

Edinburgh Castle

The army breached the castle wall.

...the messenger was confronted with a hedge of spears held aloft by the castle guards...

The castle is now a ruin.

The castle was built to withstand a siege.

The army besieged the castle.

They catapulted rocks toward the castle.

...a dank and cheerless castle that was once the site of unspeakable horrors...

The castle is in a commanding position at the top of the hill.

We explored every cranny of the old castle.

...an eccentric who designed his house to look like a Scottish castle...

...the sight of an old ruined church or castle can be a pleasantly elegiac experience...

Word forms

noun
singular: castle
plural: castles
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