castle
What is the Definition of castle?
Noun:
- a large and stately mansion
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- (chess)
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
Verb:
- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
How can I use castle in a sentence?
Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little witch called Professor Sprout, where they learned how to take care of all the strange plants and fungi, and found out what they were used for.
As Harry and Ron walked back to the castle for dinner, their pockets weighed down with rock cakes they'd been too polite to refuse, Harry thought that none of the lessons he would had so far had given him as much to think about as tea with Hagrid.
The chessmen seemed to have been listening, because at these words a knight, a bishop, and a castle turned their backs on the white pieces and walked off the board, leaving three empty squares that Harry, Ron, and Hermione took.
They were carried along a dark tunnel, which seemed to be taking them right underneath the castle, until they reached a kind of underground harbor, where they clambered out onto rocks and pebbles.
When the bell sounded from the castle at the end of their lesson, the three of them dropped their trowels at once and hurried through the grounds to the edge of the forest.
Other meanings of castle (synonyms, cognates).
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