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# castle

«castle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large, strong building with thick walls and towers…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a castle, castles); verb (castle, castles, castled, castling — in chess)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large, strong building with thick walls and towers, built long ago to protect a king, queen or lord from enemies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#m1)

2) A piece in chess, also called a rook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#m2)

3) (verb) A special chess move with the king and a rook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, castles show how people lived and fought in the Middle Ages: moats, drawbridges, towers, battlements and dungeons. In stories, castles are homes of kings, princesses and dragons. On the beach children build sandcastles. Phrases: «sandcastle», «castle walls», «build a castle».

### examples

- The castle has four towers and a moat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#x1)
- Knights guarded the castle gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#x2)
- We built a sandcastle at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#x3)
- Many old castles are in ruins now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#x4)
- The princess lived in a castle on a hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#x5)
- In chess, the castle can move in straight lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#x6)
- The castle walls were three metres thick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#x7)
- The ship glided past the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/#x8)

### note

The «t» is silent: say «CAH-sul» or «KASS-ul». Countable: castles. Castle walls were thick to stop attacks, not to keep warm.

### In the corpora

- [In Shrek, a dragon as big as a castle breathes great flames, flies and guards a castle full of treasure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/0/)
- [In Fife, Ruaridh, 9, hears the class trip is to a castle with a hundred steps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home/5/)
- [But being an expert at building castles doesn't make someone an expert on food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything/2/)
- [And the fords are seized, and the castles they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1409/)
- [A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.523/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «castle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/castle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.