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 orbattlements , like acastle . - 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
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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