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castleful

castleful noun: enough to fill a castle.

Noun

castleful (plural castlefuls or castlesful)

  1. Enough to fill a castle.
    • Does n’t she know very well that the Giant-Killer will rescue whole castlesful of distressed damsels?1874 January, “Baby’s Thoughts”, in St. Nicholas, volume I, number 3, page 168
    • Welsh resistance effectively collapsed, to be encircled with new castlefuls of Edward’s soldiers.1992, Pat Gerber, “England’s Edward and the Celtic Fringes”, in The Search for the Stone of Destiny, Canongate Press, →ISBN, page 72

Forms of castleful

pluralcastlefuls
pluralcastlesful

Origin of castleful

From castle + -ful.

Questions about castleful

What does castleful mean?
Castleful means enough to fill a castle.
What part of speech is castleful?
Castleful is a noun.
What is the plural of castleful?
The plural of castleful is castlefuls.

Words near castleful in the dictionary

  1. Castledines
  2. Castlefield
  3. Castlefin
  4. Castlefinn
  5. Castleford
  6. castleful
  7. castlefuls
  8. Castlegar
  9. Castlegregory
  10. Castleisland
  11. castleless

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