castellated
Castle-like: built or shaped like a castleCastle-like: built or shaped like a castle; usually, specifically, having castellations (crenellations).
» This Anglo-Teutonic, castellated, gothized structure must be considered as an abortive production, at once illustrative of bad taste and defective judgment.
Meaning
5 sensesCastle-like: built or shaped like a castle; usually, specifically, having castellations (crenellations).
Near-synonym: crenellated
having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
Near-synonym: crenellated
Castled: having or furnished with castles.
(rare)Housed or kept in a castle.
(not comparable, obsolete)Synonym of enclosed, when used for fountains, cisterns, &c.
Examples
1 sentencesThis Anglo-Teutonic, castellated, gothized structure must be considered as an abortive production, at once illustrative of bad taste and defective judgment.
Origin
From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified, castellate”) + -ed (forming past participles)From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified, castellate”) + -ed (forming past participles). Equivalent to the past participle of castellate but attested earlier than other uses of the verb.
From Medieval Latin castellum (“cistern”).
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Forms
more castellated, most castellated| Comparative | more castellated Lesson |
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| Superlative | most castellated Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
9 synonyms- having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement:embattledbattlementedcastledcrenelated
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form