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castle

 
Noun castle has 4 senses
  1. palace, castle - a large and stately mansion
    --1 is a kind of mansion, mansion house, manse, hall, residence
    --1 has parts: great hall
    --1 has particulars: Buckingham Palace
  2. castle - a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
    --2 is a kind of
    fortification, munition
    --2 has parts: keep, donjon, dungeon; turret
    --2 has particulars: Balmoral Castle
  3. castle, rook - (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
    --3 is a kind of chessman, chess piece
    Derived form: verb castle1
  4. castle, castling - interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
    --4 is a kind of chess move
    Derived form: verb castle1
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