castle
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 →
2) A piece in chess, also called a rook. tree →
3) (verb) A special chess move with the king and a rook. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means a fortress or palace stronghold, not a medieval knight's castle. "Shushan the castle" is the Persian royal citadel, and the "castles" Judah's kings built were forts. Interpretation: In Esther, the citadel of Shushan is where the Jews defended themselves and the royal court sat. Tradition reads it as the seat of Persian power, where Purim's reversal took place. In the primary 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
- And in Shushan the castle the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. (Writings EST.9.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store. (Writings 2CH.17.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forest he built castles and towers. (Writings 2CH.27.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- The castle has four towers and a moat. tree →
- Knights guarded the castle gate. tree →
- We built a sandcastle at the beach. tree →
- Many old castles are in ruins now. tree →
- The princess lived in a castle on a hill. tree →
- In chess, the castle can move in straight lines. tree →
- The castle walls were three metres thick. tree →
- The ship glided past the castle. tree →
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
- And the fords are seized, and the castles they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
- A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
- that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the castle,
- And in Shushan the castle the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
- On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the castle was brought before the king.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «castle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.