Castellate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkastələt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Castellate is an adjective meaning (transitive) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.
Meaning
(transitive) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.
More Meanings
- (intransitive, rare) To take the form of a castle.
- (rare) castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
- (rare) Castled: having or furnished with castles.
- (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.
- (historical, rare, obsolete) The district of a castle.
Example Sentences
...Heights castellate.
In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou.
...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm.
The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond.
Word Forms
- castellates
- castellating
- castellated
Synonyms for castellate
Depending on context, synonyms include castle, incastellated, incastle, encastle, incastellate, encastellate.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include castlette, chatellany, castelet, castellatus, cittadel, castellanus.
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