castellated
Americanadjective
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Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.
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having many castles.
adjective
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having turrets and battlements, like a castle
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having indentations similar to battlements
a castellated nut
a castellated filament
Other Word Forms
- castellation noun
Etymology
Origin of castellated
< Medieval Latin castellāt ( us ) ( castle, -ate 1 ) + -ed 2
Vocabulary lists containing castellated
Example Sentences
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But currently, only one room - what was once Gwrych's chapel - has been returned to the way it looked when Winifred, Countess of Dundonald, lived at the castellated mansion more than 100 years ago.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025
The building was designed by Chicago architects William W. Boyington and Otis L. Wheelock in the castellated Gothic style.
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2019
Imagine all this held en plein air, with the castellated jail bathed in pink light and strings of brilliant bulbs crisscrossing the night sky.
From Architectural Digest • Oct. 28, 2014
These characters play out their stories before a castellated edifice whose lack of perspective depth somehow leaches the immediacy from the events enacted before it.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013
“A forty-minute drive from London, the hulking Gothic Revival estate is a turreted and castellated house full of secret doors and old safe rooms.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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