becastled

English

WOTD – 7 May 2012

Etymology

From be- +‎ castle +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪˈkæsəld/, /bɪˈkɑːsəld/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Adjective

becastled (not comparable)

  1. Fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.
    • 1887, Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle (ed. Charles Eliot Norton; pub. Macmillan), page 135
      As long as you were living in Edinburgh I did not venture to seek you out, for how could I hope, in that becastled town (which, spite of many descriptions, always perplexes me), to find out a quiet friend.

Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.