Definitions for chateaux

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chateaux châ·teau

Spelling: [sha-toh; French shah-toh]

IPA: /ʃæˈtoʊ; French ʃɑˈtoʊ/

Chateaux is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in chateaux (aacehtux).

Definitions for chateaux

noun

1. (in France) a castle or fortress.
2. a stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
3. a country estate, especially a fine one, in France or elsewhere on the Continent.
4. (often initial capital letter) a winegrower's estate, especially in the Bordeaux region of France: often used as part of the name of a wine.

Origin of chateaux

1730-40; French ≪ Latin castellum castellum

Examples for chateaux

Some were burned in their chateaux, or massacred in the streets.

France is summed up to him in Paris and in the chateaux of outlying districts.

Mountains and water, chateaux and shallops, vineyards and verdure, could do no more.

chateaux have been going up in smoke during the last fortnight.

Two chateaux which began to burn are saved by the National Guard.

If we could defeat them, we should save your chateaux and farms from fire and ruin.

I have seen no chateaux or anything of that sort about here.

They make up a two-book set with recipes from all 85 Relais chateaux chefs in North America.

Many and many a time she had read descriptions of French chateaux—ah, that was it!

Nevers is a revelation for us both, a wonderful town nestled on the Loire and bursting with cathedrals, chateaux and history.