castle

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Related topics: Buildings, Board games

cas·tle /ˈkɑːsəl $ ˈkæ-/ W3 noun [countableC]

1 TBB (also Castle) a very large strong building, built in the past as a safe place that could be easily defended against attack 城堡，堡壘

Edinburgh Castle

愛丁堡城堡

a ruined castle

破敗的城堡

→4 See picture of 見圖 HOUSE →5 see picture at 見圖 house1

2. DGBone of the pieces used in a game of chess. Each player has two castles, which start the game in the corner squares, and can move only forwards or sideways. 〔國際象棋中的〕車 SYN rook →5 see picture at 見圖 chess

3. castles in the air BELIEVEplans or hopes that you have that are unlikely ever to become real 空中樓閣，異想天開，幻想

Examples from the Corpus

castles in the air• That, says McKinsey, is because they spend money where it is needed rather than on grand castles in the air.• Hugh Bawn's high-tech castles in the air.

Examples from the Corpus

castle• Jack climbed the beanstalk, where he found a giant woman living in a castle.• To live in such a castle meant demands on the purse.• His greatest patron was a spendthrift young king who built too many castles and may have been nuts.• Since the crow believed that this was Kay, the crow and Gerda traveled to the castle.• The castle itself, created by a millionaire in the early part of this century, can be toured.• The castle, rising on a single outcrop of rock from the plain. was built very largely of books.

Origin castle

(1000-1100) Old North French castel, from Latin castellum “building with a defensive wall”, from castrum “defended place, camp”

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