CHATEAU (chateaux)

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Irregular inflected form: chateaux   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chateau mean? 

• CHATEAU (noun)
  The noun CHATEAU has 1 sense:

1. an impressive country house (or castle) in France

  Familiarity information: CHATEAU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHATEAU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An impressive country house (or castle) in France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chateau" is a kind of...):

country house (a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country)

 Context examples 

The prize-story experience had seemed to open a way which might, after long traveling and much uphill work, lead to this delightful chateau en Espagne.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But to horse, Sir Nigel, you and yours and we shall seek the chateau of Sir Tristram de Rochefort, which is two miles on this side of Villefranche.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The garcon was in despair that the whole family had gone to take a promenade on the lake, but no, the blonde mademoiselle might be in the chateau garden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

High and strong the chateaux, lowly and weak the brushwood hut; but God help the seigneur and his lady when the men of the brushwood set their hands to the work of revenge!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Couldn't we invent a rich relation, who shall obligingly die out there in Germany, and leave him a tidy little fortune? said Laurie, when they began to pace up and down the long drawing room, arm in arm, as they were fond of doing, in memory of the chateau garden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The whole face of the country was scarred and disfigured, mottled over with the black blotches of burned farm-steadings, and the gray, gaunt gable-ends of what had been chateaux.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For an hour this new pair walked and talked, or rested on the wall, enjoying the sweet influences which gave such a charm to time and place, and when an unromantic dinner bell warned them away, Amy felt as if she left her burden of loneliness and sorrow behind her in the chateau garden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yet they had still the human gift of speech, and would take council among themselves in their brushwood hovels, glaring with bleared eyes and pointing with thin fingers at the great widespread chateaux which ate like a cancer into the life of the country-side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had rather imagined that the denoument would take place in the chateau garden by moonlight, and in the most graceful and decorous manner, but it turned out exactly the reverse, for the matter was settled on the lake at noonday in a few blunt words.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)