chateau

See also: Chateau and château

English

Noun

chateau (plural chateaus or chateaux)

1. Alternative spelling of château.
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter III, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎^[1]:

     What he had formerly been in France I had not a notion. All I knew was that he was said to possess a chateau.

Derived terms

• Chateau Cardboard
• chateaulike
• Chateau Migraine
• chateau potatoes

Danish

Etymology

From French château, from Old French chastel, from Latin castellum (“castle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjato/, [ɕaˈtˢo]

Noun

chateau n (singular definite chateauet, plural indefinite chateauer)

1. château

Inflection

Declension of chateau

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	chateau	chateauet	chateauer	chateauerne
genitive	chateaus	chateauets	chateauers	chateauernes

Further reading

• “chateau” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

• château

Etymology

From French château. Doublet of kasteel, Castilië, Kessel, castellum, ketella, and telo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːˈtoː/, /ʃɑˈtoː/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oː

Noun

chateau n (plural chateaus or chateaux, diminutive chateautje n)

1. château

Further reading

• chateau on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl