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castellations

castellations is the plural of castellation.

Meaning of castellation

Noun

castellation (countable and uncountable, plural castellations)

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle.
  2. (uncountable) The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed fortification against border-raider attacks.
  3. (countable) Any of a set of slots or grooves in an object, often machined into a metal part, as for example on a castellated nut.

Questions about castellations

What is castellations the plural of?
Castellations is the plural of castellation.

Words near castellations in the dictionary

  1. castellated nuts
  2. castellates
  3. castellati
  4. castellating
  5. castellation
  6. castellations
  7. castellatus
  8. casteller
  9. castellers
  10. castellet
  11. castellets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: castellations (page history and authors); castellation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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