Noun: château
| Singular | château |
| Plural | châteaus; châteaux |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like château
portmanteau,
ponceau,
QSL bureau,
plateau,
nouveau,
flambeau,
damoiseau,
cointreau,
Esquimau,
camaieu,
camayeu,
bordereau,
telebureau,
subbureau,
château,
couteau,
priedieu,
chateau,
chapeau,
fricandeau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Originated 1730–40. Unadapted borrowing from French château, from Old French chastel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of cashel, castell, castellum, and castle. See: Latin Nouns '
castellum'.