castellum / kæˈstɛl əm /

⚽高中词汇城堡蓖麻钟楼铸币厂

castellum 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural cas·tel·li [ka-stel-ahy]. /kæˈstɛl aɪ/. Archaeology.

  1. a small isolated fortress, or one of a series of such fortresses, of the ancient Romans.

更多castellum例句

  1. On a jutting crag of rock, in plain view from the town below, is an ancient Roman castellum.
  2. Every castle that they took was burned and destroyed, like Sir Ingelric's castellum at Speen.
  3. In the north-east s before t is still retained—Walloon chestai (chteau, castellum), fiess (fte).
  4. Arrayed in the closest order, they presented to an advancing enemy the aspect of a living rampart ('quasi castellum').
  5. Had he not stumbled at the outset over that 'quasi castellum', he might never have erected that 'ingenious but baseless fabric'.