sandcastle
A sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castleA sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castle; typically, but not always, made for fun by a child on a beach.
» Tom and Mary built a sandcastle together.
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1 sensesA sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castle; typically, but not always, made for fun by a child on a beach.
Sandburg
песча́ный за́мокpesčányj zámok
Examples
28 sentencesTom and Mary built a sandcastle together.
Tom and Mary built a sandcastle on the beach.
Let's build a sandcastle.
The flood tide destroyed the sandcastle.
deDie Flut zerstörte die Sandburg. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
He built sandcastles at the beach.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From sand + castle.From sand + castle.
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Forms
plural: sandcastles| Singular | sandcastle |
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Word family
2 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.