adj
Meaning 1
castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
castellate
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/ˈkastələt/
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/ˈkastəleɪt/
adj
Meaning 2
Castled: having or furnished with castles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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adj
Meaning 3
Housed or kept in a castle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: castle, incastellated
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The district of a castle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete, rare
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: castellany, castlery
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: castle, incastle, encastle, incastellate, encastellate, fortify
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To take the form of a castle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, rare
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History
Etymology
From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified” “made into a castle”), from castellum (“little fortification, castle”) + -ātus (forming participial adjectives). By surface analysis, Latin castellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix) or castle + -ate.
Borrowed from Medieval Latin castellātus. By surface analysis, castle + -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank or office, the concrete charge of this office).
From Medieval Latin castellō (“fortify”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).