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castellated

American  
[kas-tl-ey-tid] / ˈkæs tlˌeɪ tɪd /

adjective

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

  2. having many castles.


castellated British  
/ ˈkæstɪˌleɪtɪd /

adjective

  1. having turrets and battlements, like a castle

  2. having indentations similar to battlements

    a castellated nut

    a castellated filament

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of castellated

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

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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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