Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A French castle.
- noun A French manor house.
- noun An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in the Bordeaux region of France.
- noun A large country house.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A castle; a manor-house; a large and stately residence, usually in the country: chiefly with reference to France or southern Europe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A castle or a fortress in France.
- noun A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
château .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an impressive country house (or castle) in France
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When he came to what I called my chateau, from nowhere, going nowhere, I hardly knew whether to call him young or old.
Back to God's Country and Other Stories James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Of the 250 – 300 cases made, the chateau is holding back 50 cases for a minimum ten years to see if the wine changes back to show more of the Margaux character.
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Of the 250 – 300 cases made, the chateau is holding back 50 cases for a minimum ten years to see if the wine changes back to show more of the Margaux character.
Chateau Palmer revives an old tradition | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Looking down into the limpid quiet, where everything is so familiar, yet so alien, the eye sees, beyond those mysterious green glades, habitations of the water-country, twisted of chimney as an elfin chateau, blurred replicas of some cottage on the bank, wavering in outline and impossible in perspective.
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“There is something which might be called a chateau; but the wiser plan would be to use the building materials in the construction of a modern residence.”
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The chateau was a frame structure of twenty-eight rooms, lavishly furnished with Oriental rugs and imported Sheraton furniture.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Among the visitors at the chateau was the Baron de Saint Foix, an old friend of the Count, and his son, the Chevalier St. Foix, a sensible and amiable young man, who, having in the preceding year seen the Lady Blanche, at Paris, had become her declared admirer.
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Now, the west wing of the chateau is the most modern part and there's nothing there that this could represent.
Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983
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From the time of the arrival of the Empress we were in a state of terrible apprehension, and every one in the chateau was a prey to the greatest anxiety in regard to the Emperor.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Just behind the chateau was a wee village of dug-outs.
Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson
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