châteaux
UK/ˈʃæːtəʊ(z)/US/ʃæːˈtoʊ(z)/
châteaux is the plural of château.
Meaning of château
Noun
château (plural châteaus or châteaux)
- A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.
- Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
- Luisa has reread Sixsmith’s letters a dozen or so times or more in the last day and a half. They disturb her. A university friend of Sixsmith’s, Robert Frobisher, wrote the series in the summer of 1931 during a prolonged stay at a château in Belgium.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120
- An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in Bordeaux.
Forms of châteaux
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Phrases with châteaux
Words that rhyme with châteaux
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- interpose
- propose
- gloze
- oppose
- disclose
- foreclose
- prose
- snows
- turn up one's nose
- unclose
- adipose
- appose
- arose
- chose
- counterpose
- croze
- decompose
- doze
- enclose
- froze
- hoes
- knows
- adoze
- apollos
- beaus
- beprose
- blows
- bose
- bros
- cloze
- coze
- crows
- does
- dos
- doughs
- fallows
- fellows
- flows
- foes
- follows
- foredispose
- frows
- glows
- goes
- grows
- hard-nose
- hollows
- joes
Questions about châteaux
- What is châteaux the plural of?
- Châteaux is the plural of château.
- How do you pronounce châteaux?
- Châteaux is pronounced /ˈʃæːtəʊ(z)/ (UK).
Words near châteaux in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: châteaux (page history and authors); château (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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