chateau

• Rhymes: -əʊ

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chateau (plural chateaus or chateaux)

1. Alternative spelling of château.
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter III, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎^[1]:

     What he had formerly been in France I had not a notion. All I knew was that he was said to possess a chateau.

From French château, from Old French chastel, from Latin castellum (“castle”).

• IPA^(key): /sjato/, [ɕaˈtˢo]

chateau n (singular definite chateauet, plural indefinite chateauer)

1. château

• “chateau” in Den Danske Ordbog

• château

From French château. Doublet of kasteel, Castilië, Kessel, castellum, ketella, and telo.

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːˈtoː/, /ʃɑˈtoː/

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• Rhymes: -oː

chateau n (plural chateaus or chateaux, diminutive chateautje n)

1. château

• chateau on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl