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becastled

/bɪˈkæsəld/

becastled adjective: fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.

Adjective

becastled (not comparable)

  1. Fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.
    • 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.1887, Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle (ed. Charles Eliot Norton; pub. Macmillan), page 135

Origin of becastled

From be- + castle + -ed.

Questions about becastled

What does becastled mean?
Becastled means fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.
What part of speech is becastled?
Becastled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce becastled?
Becastled is pronounced /bɪˈkæsəld/.

Words near becastled in the dictionary

  1. becarves
  2. becarving
  3. becassocked
  4. becast
  5. becasting
  6. becastled
  7. becasts
  8. becatch
  9. becatches
  10. becatching
  11. becatecarin

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