Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Furnished with turrets and battlements in the style of a castle.
  • adjective Having a castle.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle: as, a castellated mansion.
  • Inclosed in a building, as a fountain or cistern.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Inclosed within a building.
  • adjective Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having turrets or battlements, like a castle.
  • adjective obsolete Enclosed within a building.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin castellātus, past participle of castellāre, to fortify as a castle, from Latin castellum, fort; see castle.]

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From Latin castellum "castle".

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Examples

  • As we wind about the hills we catch sight of tiny hamlets perched on airy crests, recalling the castellated villages of the African Kabylia.

    The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

  • The mansion is of that class termed castellated houses, as retaining some of the features of the feudal castle, but accommodated to the more secure and less circumspect usages of a later age.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840

  • The country houses of the nobility and landed gentry were largely built or rebuilt in what was known as the castellated style. [

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • There is a castellated former coastguard lookout at Pedn-men-du, where a man used to be stationed to sound the alert when he sighted a shoal of herring.

    Country diary: Land's End, Cornwall John Vallins 2010

  • At Hogwarts, however, the remote and castellated establishment where Harry Potter pursues his studies, there are girls everywhere: eccentric girls, stalwart girls, mean girls, ghost girls who live in the toilet, girls you get crushes on, girls you can kiss … Is this how a sorcerer is made?

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

  • At Hogwarts, however, the remote and castellated establishment where Harry Potter pursues his studies, there are girls everywhere: eccentric girls, stalwart girls, mean girls, ghost girls who live in the toilet, girls you get crushes on, girls you can kiss … Is this how a sorcerer is made?

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

  • I knew my exact place on the map, tracing a portion of a castellated line across the neck of Britannia ...

    zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth zornhau 2010

  • Parts of Shaker Heights — where I lived for 11 of the years when those changes supposed to be occurring — may look like Mission Hills with its castellated stone fortresses.

    2009 April 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Designed by architect Moshe Safdie, its conical castellated turrets pay homage to the baronial style adopted by Victorian aristocrats and merchants for their Highland shooting lodges.

    Recession? What recession? Hire a Scottish castle for £60,000 a week 2011

  • At Hogwarts, however, the remote and castellated establishment where Harry Potter pursues his studies, there are girls everywhere: eccentric girls, stalwart girls, mean girls, ghost girls who live in the toilet, girls you get crushes on, girls you can kiss … Is this how a sorcerer is made?

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

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