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 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 →
- 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
- In Shrek, a dragon as big as a castle breathes great flames, flies and guards a castle full of treasure.
- In Fife, Ruaridh, 9, hears the class trip is to a castle with a hundred steps.
- But being an expert at building castles doesn't make someone an expert on food.
- 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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «castle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.