Usually means: Fortified residence of nobility, royalty.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. castle: Merriam-Webster
  2. castle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. castle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. castle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. castle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Castle, castle: Wordnik
  7. castle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Castle, castle: Wiktionary
  9. castle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. castle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. castle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Castle, castle, the castle: Dictionary.com
  13. castle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. castle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CASTLE, Castle (Abergavenny ward), Castle (District Electoral Area), Castle (Eminem song), Castle (Halsey song), Castle (Jolin Tsai album), Castle (Season 2), Castle (TV series), Castle (book), Castle (card game), Castle (company), Castle (disambiguation), Castle (novel), Castle (season Castle+++(season+++1)), Castle (season 2), Castle (season 3), Castle (season 4), Castle (season 5), Castle (season 6), Castle (season 7), Castle (season 8), Castle (shogi), Castle (surname), Castle, The Castle (Atlanta), The Castle (Book), The Castle (Fargo), The Castle (Kadare), The Castle (Saint Helena), The Castle (Washington), The Castle (novel), The Castle (radio series), The Castle (video game), The Castle, The castle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Castle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. castle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. castle: Rhymezone
  19. castle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. castle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. castle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Castle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. castle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. castle: FreeDictionary.org
  25. castle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Castle: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. castle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CASTLE: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  4. CASTLE: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. castle: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Castle: Easton Bible
  2. Castle: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. castle: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. castle, Castle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Castle, The Castle (Newport), the castle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Castle: Chess Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Castle: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  3. Castle: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  4. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See castled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
noun:  (chess) An instance of castling.
noun:  (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
noun:  (shogi) A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
noun:  (obsolete) A close helmet.
noun:  (dated) Any strong, imposing, and stately palace or mansion.
noun:  (dated) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
noun:  (cricket, colloquial) The wicket.
verb:  (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To protect or separate in a similar way.
verb:  (obsolete) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.
verb:  (usually intransitive, chess) To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
verb:  (usually intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
verb:  (cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
noun:  (countable) A surname transferred from the common noun referring to someone who lived in or worked in a castle
noun:  (UK, rail transport) Castle class, a class of steam locomotives used on the GWR
noun:  (UK, Durham University slang) University College, Durham, a constituent college located in Durham Castle
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A hamlet in Bowerchalke parish, south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0122).
noun:  A community (without a council) in Cardiff, Wales; it includes Cardiff Castle.
noun:  A community (without a council) in Swansea, Wales; it includes Swansea Castle.
noun:  A town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States, derived from the surname.

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