château

• chateau

Originated 1730–40. Unadapted borrowing from French château, from Old French chastel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of cashel, castell, castellum, and castle.

• Rhymes: -əʊ
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃæˈtoʊ/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃætəʊ/, /ʃæˈtəʊ/

château (plural châteaus or châteaux)

1. A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.
2. Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
3. An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in Bordeaux.

• Chateau Migraine (Château Migraine, château migraine, chateau migraine)

• “château”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “château”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "château" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Inherited from Middle French château, chasteau, chastel, from Old French chastel, from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum.

• Cognate with Italian castello, Portuguese castelo, Romanian castel, Spanish castillo

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.to/ ~ /ʃɑ.to/

• Audio (male voice "un château"):

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• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: châ‧teau

château m (plural châteaux)

1. castle (fortified building or similar structure; winegrower's estate)

• châtelain

• → Danish: chateau
• → English: château, chateau
• → Norwegian Bokmål: château, chateau
• → Portuguese: chatô
• → Russian: шато́ (šató)
• → Turkish: şato
• → Ukrainian: шато́ (šató)

• "château" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.

• “château”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.