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How to pronounce castle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms palace
Type of manse, residence, hall, mansion house, mansion
Type Words
Synonyms rook
Type of chess piece, chessman
Type Words
Synonyms castling
Type of chess move
Type Words
Type of munition, fortification
Type Words
Type of go, move
Derivation castling

Examples of castle

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After the Iron Curtain fell, her heirs petitioned for the castle to be returned.
From the time.com
The estate has a mock castle, ornamental lakes, a cricket pitch and 3,000 acres.
From the telegraph.co.uk
She points out a little tower which is the only original bit of the castle left.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Tina's family sold their castle to the dictator as he renamed the country Zaire.
From the independent.co.uk
The Hearst Corp. still owns the 128-square-mile ranch that surrounds the castle.
From the bostonherald.com
A note explained what was ahead, as did a picture of the castle at Disney World.
From the courier-journal.com
A sorceress steals baby Rapunzel from the castle and locks the child in a tower.
From the washingtonpost.com
A spokeswoman for the castle says the fire was concentrated in a billiards room.
From the washingtonpost.com
While the visitors center is a modern building, the castle seems frozen in time.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
  • Palace: a large and stately mansion
  • A large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
  • (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
  • Interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
  • (castled) embattled: having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"
  • A castle (from Latin castellum) is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. ...
  • Castle is Sherman Chung's second album, released by EEG Emperor Entertainment Group in 2008.
  • Castle is a Caldecott Honor award-winning book by David Macaulay published in 1978.