castellated

[kas-tl-ey-tid]

adjective

1. Architecture.,  built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.

2. having many castles.

castellated

/ ˈkæstɪˌleɪtɪd /

adjective

1. having turrets and battlements, like a castle

2. having indentations similar to battlements

   a castellated nut

   a castellated filament

Other Word Forms

• castellation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of castellated¹

< Medieval Latin castellāt ( us ) ( castle, -ate ¹ ) + -ed ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of castellated¹

C17: from Medieval Latin castellātus, from castellāre to fortify as a _castle

Example Sentences

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.

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His first sight of Kardamyli is of an enchanting, castellated hamlet at the sea’s edge, where towers, turrets and cupolas rise above houses built of golden stone.

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Take a detour to the castellated tower that you spy in the distance rising into the blue Tuscan sky.

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A castellated turret and scowling gargoyles mark the Long Island City Clock Tower as one of Queens’s most treasured landmarks.

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But the gargoyles still glower atop the Long Island City clock tower, alongside its castellated turret, copper windows and granite shields.

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