Overview of noun castle

The noun castle has 4 senses

• palace, castle -- (a large and stately mansion)


• castle -- (a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack)


• castle, rook -- ((chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard)


• castle, castling -- (interchanging the positions of the king and a rook)

Overview of verb castle

The verb castle has 1 sense

• castle -- (move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king)